Example sentences of "[verb] off on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 32 | There may be one or two when we might just say well perhaps just a little bit more volume but it 's not perhaps just er slacken off on the pace a little bit . |
| 33 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 34 | The eggs remain in the damp sand , safe from marine predators , until they hatch out fifteen days later and swim off on the next high spring tide . |
| 35 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 36 | so I 'm going off on the Mo on the Tuesday still be knackered after the |
| 37 | Hilda Hewitt had copies of two posters run off on the Office photo-copier . |
| 38 | Hilda Hewitt had copies of two posters run off on the Office photo-copier . |
| 39 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 40 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 42 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 43 | and rowing for gold all this week will be the best oarsmen … young and old … from all over the world as the royal regatta takes off on the Thames at henley … we 'll be on the water tomorrow night to look ahead with the fastest school crew in the country |
| 44 | We do have sufficient data that a straightforward regime of thrombolysis and aspirin works , but I would advise holding off on the heparin until more data is available . |
| 45 | Most years Keith really gets off on the famine . |
| 46 | After breaking the ice last month he was desperately unlucky in an amateur riders ' race having to be switched in the final furlong after getting off on the rails . |
| 47 | In charge of flying off on the carrier was Wg.Cdr . |
| 48 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 49 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 50 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 51 | Take a 79 , 24 or a 51A , B or C , bus going southwards and get off on the South Circular Road , Kilmainham . |
| 52 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 53 | It happened shortly after 500 athletes set off on the Rowntree Athletic Club 's 10-mile road race at the weekend . |
| 54 | THIS MORNING at 7am , 1,250 pairs of arms will churn the warm blue water of the Pacific into foam as the competitors set off on the first , swimming stage of the 11th Ironman Triathlon on and around the little resort of Kailua-Kona here . |
| 55 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 56 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 57 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 58 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 59 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 60 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |