Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , in effect , triggered off by very specific and local forms of social relationship and the threats they pose to everyday life . |
| 2 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 3 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 4 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 5 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 6 | He has used a fast government car to shake off at least one photographer , but there is a more prosaic explanation for Mr Lamont 's perambulations around Blackpool — his civil servants could not get through the security around the Imperial . |
| 7 | DUNGANNON 'S Ulster scrum-half Ashley Blair could miss his side 's All-Ireland League opener in a fortnight after being carried off during yesterday 's 36-6 friendly victory over Highfield at Stevenson Park . |
| 8 | Misreading the clues , they head off in completely the wrong direction and manage to become the first people ever to get shipwrecked on one of the islands of Derwentwater . |
| 9 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 10 | the farmers will hope it holds off at least for the next few weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , the beetles ’ surface starts off with only two dimensions . |
| 12 | The Land Rover 's motor was already running when he arrived in the street , and when Hennessy had clambered in on the passenger side Windeler moved off without even waiting to see if the door was secure . |
| 13 | And I went there for a little bit , and then we moved on , moved off from there , do you see ? |
| 14 | However , Miranda , who could n't stand indecision , was n't the sort of woman to be fobbed off for much longer . |
| 15 | For example , if he had played nicely until 10.30am , wandered off at 10.35am , kicked the dog at 11.00am and fallen downstairs at 11.45am , would it really be sensible to give him his sweet at 12 noon for earlier playing ? |
| 16 | a hundred , you know that , you just sort of , you 've just been doing it on those out of your head , so we 've got two hundred times , now what do we finish off with , we finish off with once |
| 17 | The raiders also made off with more than £700 in cash collected to pay for summer outings . |
| 18 | Thieves have made off with more than £2,000 from the safe of Yeoman 's Garage , in Valley Street , Darlington . |
| 19 | Superhero torch pens we can send off for now mm so . |
| 20 | The defensive manoeuvre behind it is something like this : if I do n't acknowledge that this thing has happened then I do n't have to believe it is true ; I wo n't have to understand what has occurred if I hold off from consciously realizing that it has happened . |
| 21 | The cart drove off at once . |
| 22 | ‘ The girl you drove off with just now ? ’ |
| 23 | For the younger workers , in particular , mechanization has become a badge of their modernity which they can show off to otherwise uncomprehending townies in a manner which the latter can understand . |
| 24 | Initially we talked of our course and our fellow students , but soon the conversation veered off into more personal matters . |
| 25 | The top came off at once . |
| 26 | When the linker is on the needlebed , this needle is facing the machine needles and it casts off in exactly the same way as you do with the latch tool . |
| 27 | I could neither remain unemployed for eighteen months nor begin a new job now and break off after only a year . |
| 28 | Cut off for so long from most western visitors , the wonderful and varied scenery and marvellous historic cities will surely make this country one of the most popular tourist destinations of all . |
| 29 | And if the clash includes huge or small prints in jewel colours , played off against vividly checked tweeds , so much the better . |
| 30 | And , before your mind starts wandering off into even more lurid byways , she 's extremely happily married , with three grown-up children . |