Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mitchell cooled off in September , Clark came into his own , to the delight of his manager . |
| 2 | Sloping off at croup . |
| 3 | At that time there were two or three hundred Viscounts flying in various parts of the world , and to have grounded all Viscounts because the wings had come off in flight in this accident would have contributed nothing to air safety . |
| 4 | The land outside the village , but in the clearings on which wives grow ground-nuts , is in revenge mystically fenced off to men . |
| 5 | They turned abruptly into the long gardens of the Inner Temple , fenced off from sightseers . |
| 6 | The underlying assumption was that the likelihood of marriage between people from different villages drops off with increase in geographical distance between the villages . |
| 7 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 8 | In the first the record that is added is inserted into its correct position in the file , and the record at the end of the track to which it was added drops off into overflow . |
| 9 | I often get tipped off about things like that . ’ |
| 10 | Iranians had more respect for people with graying locks ; North , already tipped off by Ghorbanifar , had put more white in his ; so Hakim and Nir went back to the shop and had Nir 's hair sprayed , Hakim all the while keeping his identity firmly under his wig . |
| 11 | Tipped off by Harry Solomon of Hillsdown , Mr Lever moved in on Spong Holdings , an ailing shell with a stock market listing in 1989 . |
| 12 | In autumn 1941 the German advance into Russia , which had begun so spectacularly , ground to halt on the approach to Moscow , and a disastrous retreat in the icy wastes of the Russian winter could only be staved off with difficulty and at high human cost , leaving an ill-equipped army to endure the arctic conditions . |
| 13 | If the actual performance of liege homage could be staved off by Henry 's successors until the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty were properly implemented , then it could be claimed that the duke was acting as defacto sovereign in his duchy until such time as the agreement was fulfilled . |
| 14 | In this case the soil tends to come off in flakes . |
| 15 | One reviewer slammed the 40-minute ‘ Blue Room ’ single as ‘ hippy excrement ’ , while the finale of ‘ UF Orb ’ finds the dolphins blasting off from Earth in a freshwater spaceship , leaving mankind to stew in his own toxic waste . |
| 16 | The horse will gallop off in terror , not realising that all it has to do is open its jaws to free itself from its tormentor . |
| 17 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 18 | His father drove some of the way , but was dropped off by Clarke before the accident happened on the A4095 at Curbridge . |
| 19 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 20 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 21 | They had then rolled off towards Pushkin with Myeloski eating the vobla out of an old copy of Izvestia which was unrolled on his lap . |
| 22 | A man like this would not rise at dawn , hurry off to work , and return home hours later , weary and exhausted . |
| 23 | He says all the stuff about storming off to Paris and missing practices were rumours spread by Wilko . |
| 24 | Right , if we erm , nip off to Tesco 's now , what 's the time , half past ten are we going to go into Tesco 's now Charlotte and have a ride in the trolley ? |
| 25 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 26 | And now Martha and he were united in a strange fellow feeling , which neither of them had expected , and which they had to shake off with difficulty . |
| 27 | She charged off in search of her mother . |
| 28 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 29 | Upon receiving names they fly off into orbit , and return one by one during the course of the first part of the novel to be given ‘ rebirth ’ by Someone . |
| 30 | But then they fly off to Stockholm and have a couple of drinks . |