Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
2 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
3 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
4 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
5 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
6 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
7 | MARK JONES , the 16-stone Welsh forward in trouble after being sent off for a punch in Hull 's fiery clash with Warrington , is in more hot water . |
8 | The reception , complete with Thai barbecue , was held in a marquee in the back garden of their south London home , and the newly-weds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York . |
9 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
10 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
11 | Anyway , by that stage I was already pissed off after the result in Dublin . |
12 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |
13 | I held my hand up , fingers splayed , and counted the points off like a teacher in front of a group of scholars . |
14 | But the long-term effect is that the economy at home will take off like a rocket in mid-1993 . |
15 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
16 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
17 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
18 | Luci Hayter is here , whose husband went off with the girl in market research . |
19 | With more than $20m-worth of Microsoft shares , Mr Shirley will sail off into the sunset in June , when he plans to retire . |
20 | ‘ You two spend a lot of time talking , ’ she remarked one day , materializing beside my chair as Lynn shambled off into the house in search of tea to counter the Dionysiac influence of the southern sun . |
21 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
22 | ‘ She 'd be better off in a house in Thirkett than stuck out here in that great barn of a place . |
23 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
24 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
25 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |
26 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
27 | He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there . |
28 | No servant should be at liberty to carry it off to a rival in trade and thus save him the expense and expertise of doing it himself " . |
29 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
30 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |