Example sentences of "it [vb -s] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes off every , it 's an hourly chime |
| 2 | It whistles off the stars |
| 3 | It stands off the A61 north of Nottingham . |
| 4 | It lives off the local people , eating the camels of roaming nomads , who appeared to offer them willingly . |
| 5 | When this diluted sound hits an object , say a fly , it bounces off the fly . |
| 6 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 7 | This conceptual inflation tends to reduce the effectiveness of the idea by playing into the hands of critics who maintain that the concept of dependency is unviable because it closes off the theoretical space for explaining growth and development , however limited , where it does occur . |
| 8 | It closes off the street half way and you know George Street is a commercial street erm delivery lorries will go up and not know where to turn round and come back or what entrance or exit they can use , and also because traffic ca n't use it it will simply put a terrific amount on another of the main streets , namely Beaumont Street . |
| 9 | This action is called ‘ cut-off ’ because it cuts off the input — the hostile face looming over it . |
| 10 | As the head of science put it : I think once it gets off the ground and we have got the library and the integrated studies and study skills teaching in a central resource area for the whole school , I think then , people are going to have to start seriously appraising the way they teach and I think that can only be a good thing . |
| 11 | The theory is it keeps off the white fly and attracts pollenaters . |
| 12 | With the disc , the lamprey clamps itself on the flank of a fish , and with the tongue it rasps off the flesh , eating the fish alive . |
| 13 | At one point it rises off the ground like a periscope , looking around itself , for a fraction of a second casting a backward eye at us . |
| 14 | Erm and then any domestic policy which affects the outside , so that 's a projection of domestic interests erm into the outside world , so I 'll show you what I 've written down and it 's influenced by what you 've got in that book by Clarke , I 'm afraid it falls off the end a bit , foreign policy is a government activity concerned with relations between the state and other actors in the international arena , that should be . |
| 15 | ‘ It glares off the surface , ’ said Robert . |
| 16 | By the time it sets off the smoke detector , the corridor is blocked . |
| 17 | ‘ Sorry … it runs off the battery does n't it . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes it goes on until dawn or death from exhaustion ; sometimes it carries off the dancer to an unknown destination . |
| 19 | It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game . |
| 20 | it comes off the grass you see |