Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 2 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 3 | When the biggest set of the day came through , well over thirty feet but still well-formed , Doerner , Foo , and Bradshaw all set off in pursuit . |
| 4 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 5 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 6 | ‘ Pay no attention , ’ Dickinson told the replacements , ‘ he 's only showing off in front of the visitors . ’ |
| 7 | His raving was suddenly choked off in a fit of agonised coughing by the stinging , acrid fumes of the gasoline which cascaded down over his head and shoulders , as Curtis upended the almost empty can and poured the dregs down over him . |
| 8 | All my life I had done my best not to sound off in company . |
| 9 | The neutrino normally given off in beta decay is a first-generation neutrino , and called an ‘ electron neutrino ’ . |
| 10 | Now he could see the world ranging round him , as it were , free , exciting and full of possibilities , neither limited by the encircling arms of Jesus , nor somehow squared off in a kind of boxing ring , with Marx , Engels , Lenin and Hegel fierce at every corner , barring all the exits . |
| 11 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 12 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 13 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 14 | Well — the man is old and can no longer show off in such an aria as that in Act II — ‘ Fuor del mar ho un mar nel seno ’ . |
| 15 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 16 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 17 | Other Companies of the Battalion were already moving off in time to take their appropriate places in the March Table . |
| 18 | On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 . |
| 19 | It is useful to quote the size of the repeat when ordering fabric for curtains or blinds so that you do not cut off in the middle of a formalized pattern . |
| 20 | The traditional concept of religion as insurance on the next world which might or not pay off in this one is exactly reversed . |
| 21 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 22 | You do n't have to remember any words or facts or anything difficult like that — you just go off in a sort of coma and think how wonderful you are . |
| 23 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 24 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 25 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 26 | On the other hand the United States should not write off in advance certain parts of Asia to communism without examining what might or might not be done . |
| 27 | I do n't think it would 've bothered us when it was spitting and spotting if we 'd actually been out there , would it , it 's just setting off in it . |
| 28 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 29 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
| 30 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ said Moynihan , promptly jogging off in the direction of Hove . |