Example sentences of "was [verb] [to-vb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first year of the new HCIMA programmes of study was shown to get off to a good start , with over 740 student enrolments . |
| 2 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 3 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 4 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 5 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |