Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 2 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 3 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 4 | He told some gory stories of eagles carrying off dogs and lambs , of their being shot and maimed . |
| 5 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 6 | Sailors perform in man-on-man heats in front of a panel of judges showing off their jumping , riding and turning skills in the waves . |
| 7 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 8 | Tabby began purring which sounded , to the miniature Mildred , like a squadron of aeroplanes taking off . |
| 9 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 10 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 11 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 12 | A HUGE REWARD £10,000 is offered by HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING to any person helping to capture any of the NOTORIOUS BANDS of SMUGGLERS trafficking off our Coasts So heinous are their crimes , so urgent the necessity of checking their activities that ALL ARE INVITED |
| 13 | Bits of wings falling off . |
| 14 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 15 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 16 | As Cawthorne had said , they were like airguns going off . |
| 17 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 18 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 19 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |
| 20 | ’ We will be building cables with ducts leading off to every house , which can easily be connected if they want the service . ’ |
| 21 | Other ties , with games kicking off at 2 p.m. unless stated , are : |
| 22 | One morning , Santa found him lying down on the snow , staring at a dead flower with tears dropping off his little cheeks . |
| 23 | There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see . |
| 24 | The bar was crowded with men coming off shift from the electronics factory all arguing heatedly about a disputed penalty in a soccer match being shown on a T.V. set above the counter , the fact that the match had taken place two months before in no way diminishing the fervour of the argument . |
| 25 | A long corridor ran down the length of the building with doors leading off on both sides . |
| 26 | But among recollections of getting stuck on chamber pots and jokes about wives running off with police patrol men was an insight from Sir Roger Elliott of the BA director 's office arrangement — wonderful were it true : Tim Godfray has two in-trays in his office , one labelled ‘ In ’ and the other ‘ Deep In ’ . |
| 27 | TONS of French beer and wine were dumped on the roadside after a crackdown on coaches rolling off cross-channel ferries . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 29 | Anxiety about the state of the economy and the turmoil which followed Britain 's departure from the ERM led to families paying off more outstanding debt last month . |
| 30 | The Special Claims Control squads also harass women directly by threats that their benefit will be stopped and with soft talk about men sponging off women . |