Example sentences of "off in the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 2 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 3 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
| 4 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 5 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 6 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 7 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 8 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 9 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 10 | Tips for success : apply strips of wax to the hair , then strip off in the opposite direction of hair growth . |
| 11 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |