Example sentences of "[verb] off at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sloping off at croup . |
| 2 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 3 | Remember also , the pitfalls for children of ‘ tickly ’ yarns ( I hate that jumper , it tickles ) , of necks being too tight ( I 'll never wear that thing again ) when ears have almost been severed off at bedtime ! |
| 4 | ‘ My mind wandered off at four-love , ’ she admitted after winning nine games in succession from 1–1 to easily take the first set and forge a 4–0 lead in the second . |
| 5 | Also , I lost the green tape that went round the edge so the ball used to shoot off at speed . |
| 6 | The car drove off at speed , the tyres screeching , and disappeared into the endless bricks of suburbia . |
| 7 | She must 'ave turned off at t'top of your other path . |
| 8 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 9 | In autumn when the plants have begun to die down naturally the perennials should have their flowered stems cut off at ground level , if not already done , and annuals should be dug up and put for compost . |
| 10 | They had stopped off at home and packed a case for her and then they had stayed to help her settle in . |
| 11 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 12 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 13 | Despite the absence of the injured Ally McCoist and Richard Gough , who limped off at half-time , Britain 's best somehow clawed their way to a draw . |
| 14 | He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight . |
| 15 | The wind pressure on the rotors increased rapidly when they were rotated at full speed but levelled off at wind velocities beyond about 12 m/sec . |
| 16 | They rode off at dawn . |
| 17 | STOCKTON , thumped by 40 points in their last two games , ring the changes up front for tomorrow 's attractive home match with West Hartlepool , which kicks off at noon . |
| 18 | Martin Saunders retains the full back position for the hastily arranged game at Middlesbrough , which kicks off at noon . |
| 19 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 20 | The goods which are impounded are then sold off at auction and the proceeds of sale , less charges , paid over to the plaintiff . |
| 21 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Consett , who kick off at noon against Billingham Synthonia , are without keeper Tony Morris , so Chris Teesdale deputises . |
| 23 | Would you ev would you ever get any comeback from you your father , if you got told told off at school ? |
| 24 | A beta version of PC-DOS version 6 is being shown off at Comdex with support for PCMCIA cards and power management facilities , and in addition the company has struck a deal with Paper Software Inc of New Paltz , New York for its Sidebar technology . |
| 25 | Business takes off at school |
| 26 | The Marx brothers might have shown more tolerance than Karl Marx for Stalin 's antics : throwing food at guests unwise enough to nod off at table during his interminable late-night dinner parties , or racing round in meetings ‘ cursing like a cab driver ’ . |
| 27 | Cotter and Mann , having resolved to announce the stoppage in Liverpool at 8 p.m.on the 14th. , found their hand forced by the men on the Empress of Britain who walked off at midday , compelling them to " go along the Dock Road at dinner time giving the signal and proclaiming the strike " . |
| 28 | To reach this desolate spot you set off at sun-up and head toward mountain ranges which scarcely ever get closer . |
| 29 | No coming off at promenade down into Street . |
| 30 | Diplomatic sources who witnessed the incident said he was driven off at speed in a police convoy and his whereabouts are unknown . |