Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stage 4 is the familiar multiplier , only this time triggered off by a change in imports and exports . |
| 2 | Some eruptions have become major historical events , since many of the world 's greatest natural disasters have been associated with volcanoes , either directly through the effects of explosions and suffocation by volcanic gases , or indirectly through the much further-reaching effects of tidal waves triggered off by an eruption , such as those resulting from the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 . |
| 3 | Pillars ran around the circular enclosure , and the myriad corridors all seemed to disappear off to an elaborate pattern . |
| 4 | PETER Kennedy 's tongue-in-cheek shot at his latest creation , ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ , has come off with a bang at the Arts Theatre this week . |
| 5 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 6 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 7 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 8 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 9 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 10 | You could hear them squeaking off from a distance . |
| 11 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 12 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 13 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 14 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 15 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 16 | ROS : You march in here without so much as a by your leave and expect me to take very lunatic you try to pass off with a lot of unsubstantiated |
| 17 | The distinction , termed ‘ polarisation ’ was deemed necessary to make more transparent to customers the possible ties of their advisers , and to eliminate the ability of an intermediary to pass off as an independent adviser yet suggest the policies of the advisers ' own company ( or those which provide the highest commission ) . |
| 18 | The fans were right to give me stick but they 've been good to me and it 's great to come off to a reception like that . ’ |
| 19 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 20 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 21 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 22 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 23 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 24 | When told to sod off by a man well over six feet tall , about fourteen stones in weight , with a four-iron in his hand , and known to be of uncertain temperament , even the most hardened reporter will do just that . |
| 25 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 26 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 27 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 28 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 29 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 30 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |