Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entrance to the Casa Sciorto led off a narrow side-street , its huge carved door embellished with massive brass door-knockers in the shape of diving dolphins . |
| 2 | His mind fought off the idea furiously , and yet it came back to fret his certainty again . |
| 3 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 4 | After he had eaten he lit a small oil lamp to dispel the gathering gloom , and by its light fought off the silence by indulging in some desultory tidying , which consisted of gathering together assorted scrolls of papyrus and articles of clothing scattered about , and dumping them into two chests — one for each . |
| 5 | Television celebrity , Leslie Crowther has been allowed home from hospital , four months after his car crashed off a motorway . |
| 6 | TWO brothers were killed when their car crashed off a Perthshire road yesterday . |
| 7 | DAMON HILL beat off a string of top Formula One drivers , including new Williams-Renault team-mate Alain Prost , to record the fastest time in testing at France 's Signes circuit . |
| 8 | ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could . |
| 9 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 10 | Manville peeled off a twenty , tucking it into the man 's palm . |
| 11 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 12 | Rex switched off the suction pump , hung up the miner 's helmet , divested himself of the fisherman 's waders and laid his snorkel aside . |
| 13 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 14 | Yesterday a wheel flew off a lorry and hit a car . |
| 15 | Of course Carvill 's Hill started off a dead cert , yet he limped home badly beaten . |
| 16 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 17 | TOYOTA 'S first cars rolled off a new assembly line in Derbyshire yesterday — as Ford announced 1,180 job losses . |
| 18 | A dark figure took off a police helmet and wiped his brow . |
| 19 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 20 | The superintendent tore off a piece of nan and wiped the curry sauce from her plate . |
| 21 | Starting on the Seahawk 13 , Okoye shrugged off an arm tackle from one linebacker and flipped another on to his back at the 11 . |
| 22 | The light glinted off a white tower at the very summit of the hill , and Riven caught the glitter of metal on the battlements as a helmet or spear blade caught the sun . |
| 23 | Still sitting as if he was in the saddle , the Corporal loosed off a defiant burst , then swung over and down to us . |
| 24 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 25 | Adams set off an a solo run down the left reminiscent of his days at Leeds , and in the end Southampton 's adventure was rewarded leaving Ipswich with nothing to show for an entertaining afternoon 's work . |
| 26 | The stabbing of a German by a Romanian on Sept. 14 in Wismar sparked off a week of attacks against a hostel in the town . |
| 27 | The driver dropped off a man or two at dunes that had drifted on to the road and would then go back and pick them up when they had finished , before taking them further south . |
| 28 | The driver dropped off an elderly female passenger in the Holmbyre Terrace/Holmbyre Road area close to where Mr Currie lived , just after midnight on Saturday . |
| 29 | As Farrah 's parents went through hell , Caren McSweeney showed off the six-month-old to customers at an Irish pub claiming she was called Chloe . |
| 30 | But two goals in two minutes midway through the half killed off the Dragons . |