Example sentences of "[noun] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Australia , players have four to five months off in the summer to prepare and they also play far less games . ’ |
| 2 | But she has this threatening jacket , a dark linen one which she can pop on over the Lycra , and it has big shoulders and big assertive buttons and nips in at the waist , and this means , ‘ Fun I may be , but business is business and I will rip your arms and legs off in the boardroom if you let me . ’ |
| 3 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 4 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 5 | Walkman , alarm clock , my winter pyjamas ( too hot , I 'd thrown the duvet off in the middle of the night ) , my wash-'n'-make-up bag , and necessities . |
| 6 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 7 | The ragged mountains off in the distance were dark and mysterious , the equally ragged coastline full of secrets . |
| 8 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 9 | It 'll probably take all your hair off in the end ! |
| 10 | We only probably have to take seven standard colours off in the end . |
| 11 | ‘ Fat lot of good that is , ’ he observed , ‘ if they 've chewed your balls off in the meantime . ’ |
| 12 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 13 | Start a Shuttle and a space walker off in the same direction and at the same speed , and they stay together following exactly the same path round the Earth . |
| 14 | EIGHT sendings off in the Barclays League on Saturday took the season 's tally in domestic competitions to 246 , passing the record high of 242 in 1982–83 . |
| 15 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 16 | The world 's top women golfers have tee-ed off in the Ford golf Classic at Woburn . |
| 17 | There will be sweet moments for all of us , but they will be swamped by the sour … and we 'll all be happy , in our own peculiar way , saving up for a sunny day two or three years off in the future . |
| 18 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 19 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 20 | He has his day off in the middle of the week because we are always busy at the weekends . |
| 21 | So , so used to your sort of third week having a day off in the week . |
| 22 | ‘ After that write-up , it had better be something a bit more decisive than tossing each other off in the bogs . ’ |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs . |
| 25 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
| 26 | He dropped the logs off in the kitchen , adding a couple to the stove , and put the kettle on . |
| 27 | The excess risk levels off in the following years and is undoubtedly the result of selection of patients with an unrecognised malignancy at the time of commencement of peptic ulcer treatment . |
| 28 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 29 | well they 've got a guest house where they rent , they let five of the rooms off in the summer to such millionaires |
| 30 | When she got the erm paper off in the erm er er in the hall , she found it all fell apart . |