Example sentences of "in off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven minutes later Ger Burns levelled the scores with a short corner conversion and Clarke put Ireland 2–1 up with a fierce shot which went in off the crossbar after Jimmy Kirkwood had done the initial damage on the stroke of half-time . |
| 2 | All shale and weeds and winds that picked up speed as they swooped in off the ocean , this strip of barren land prepared you for the final desolation of the Crumbles . |
| 3 | He snatched at the ball inside the Bournemouth penalty area and , though confronted by four defenders , enterprisingly veered to his right before hitting the ball on the turn and in off the bar . |
| 4 | Three of his goals bounced in off the posts . |
| 5 | ‘ The water 's risen two floors from where Bryce pulled me in off the telegraph pole , ’ Maggie reported . |
| 6 | A SHOP 'S vintage hangover cure is proving so popular that regular users are walking in off the streets to take it at £1 a shot . |
| 7 | It is not the student returning but a flood of visitors — a lady coming to teach Hungarian to students about to visit Budapest , a social worker sorting out a student with severe memory loss whose phone is about to be cut off , a personnel officer from the Civic Offices to recruit potential employees from students on the scheme and one or two others who just seem to have wandered in off the streets . |
| 8 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 9 | She sat in the empty shop for days willing people in off the streets . |
| 10 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 11 | ‘ He must have powerful friends , ’ said Georgiades , who had just limped in off the streets ; not injured but footsore . |
| 12 | She laid out in here and people just wandered in off the back end here . |
| 13 | Sheets of rain hauled in off the bay , blew around the steamers and ferries moored round the windswept quay , then collapsed upon the dark grey buildings of the town . |
| 14 | McMahon robbed Speed just outside the City penalty area and a sharp counterattack ended with Quinn taking the ball wide of his marker , Whyte , and beating Lukic with a thunderous drive which went in off the underside of the crossbar . |
| 15 | It seemed the season would start happily when Mick Harford kept up the habit of scoring on his debut with a superb 84th minute strike from 20 yards which went in off the underside of the bar . |
| 16 | It dropped in off the spoon . |
| 17 | He backed it out of the shed where it was parked and drove Claire 's car in off the road . |
| 18 | up onto the horse you 're going on , you go straight in off the road . |
| 19 | No , we 'll , we 'll take that one in off the wall , right |
| 20 | A cold breeze was blowing in off the sea which blasted them the moment they stepped on to the pavement . |
| 21 | Her face was a white blur under the dark cloak and hood she wore as protection against the fierce wind coming in off the sea . |
| 22 | A mist began to roll in off the sea ; and suddenly , before Ruth really noticed what was happening , everything beyond ten yards was blotted out . |
| 23 | And yet … there was a night , long ago now , when a mist came in off the sea ; we slept uneasily , then woke in the dark , to hear the cold whine of sea magic in the air . |
| 24 | I was reading some gimcrack book about economics , full of those pictograms that fall half-way between diagrams and drawings , when I heard the thudding of a diesel engine running under the roar of the gale coming in off the sea and over the whirr of the fan heater that was marinading my feet . |
| 25 | But having said that , if you 're standing er at the seafront after a hot day or something and there 's a cool er breeze coming in off the sea , the same thing is er is a pleasing thing . |
| 26 | So one day , very hot and insecty , with a faint breeze coming in off the sea , we were all lying in the grass on the flat area just to the south of the house . |
| 27 | The show is hip and happening , dude : the audience looks as if it has just walked in off the King 's Road , the post-modernish set is ultra-cool , the show 's titles are dazzling , the best I 've seen on British television . |
| 28 | A strong south-westerly wind ruins the swells coming in off the Atlantic . |
| 29 | The quarters should be in off the track as much as the shoulders would be in shoulderin , keeping plenty of bend behind the saddle . |
| 30 | This means that if you drop your tackle in off the end of your rod the current tends to carry your float away from your bank . |