Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] off a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Television celebrity , Leslie Crowther has been allowed home from hospital , four months after his car crashed off a motorway . |
| 4 | TWO brothers were killed when their car crashed off a Perthshire road yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The roof came off a woman 's house , and we all helped to save what we could . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Manville peeled off a twenty , tucking it into the man 's palm . |
| 9 | A motorway workman was killed when a wheel flew off a lorry and hit him . |
| 10 | Yesterday a wheel flew off a lorry and hit a car . |
| 11 | Of course Carvill 's Hill started off a dead cert , yet he limped home badly beaten . |
| 12 | TOYOTA 'S first cars rolled off a new assembly line in Derbyshire yesterday — as Ford announced 1,180 job losses . |
| 13 | A dark figure took off a police helmet and wiped his brow . |
| 14 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 15 | The superintendent tore off a piece of nan and wiped the curry sauce from her plate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Still sitting as if he was in the saddle , the Corporal loosed off a defiant burst , then swung over and down to us . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 2.50:DAVID Nicholson pulled off a tremendous training performance when Duntree won at Cheltenham after two years off the track . |
| 21 | A SKINHEAD bit off a man 's ear and spat it out on a pub floor after the victim criticised his pitbull terrier . |
| 22 | Case No. 6 : 2 year-old boy fell off a platform striking his head . |
| 23 | It took a wicked deflection but goalkeeper Thomson brought off a superb save . |
| 24 | Rachaela reeled off a book-established fact . |
| 25 | The burning heather curls gave off a bright , intense heat but burned quickly , and they each took their turn at collecting a pile so the fire could be kept going through part of the night at least . |
| 26 | Parrella held off a spirited fightback from 23-year-old McMahon to win 21–19 . |
| 27 | FORTY-FIVE people were killed last night when an excursion coach careered off a Spanish motorway and plunged down a steep embankment . |
| 28 | The rear gunner loosed off a round of deadliness in the general direction of the fighter , but , it seemed , he was not the target and Biggins could only watch in morbid fascination as his wing man went down in flames . |
| 29 | His return sparked off a power struggle within the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , the country 's leading opposition group . |
| 30 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |