Example sentences of "[adv] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The nationalists as a party capable of national leadership — that is to say the VNQDD — had admittedly been destroyed but while the ICP was not much better off the difference was that the VNQDD never really recovered from French repression . |
2 | Going down with my dad who had been president of the lifeboat here for about fifty years , to meet the lifeboat as come in with survivors , I was just a wee boy at the time but I remember the Icelandic trawler , the Geyser and one of the first to be put ashore off the lifeboat that night , was a wee lassie , and she came across the pier and she came to me , because I was the only kid down there that night . |
3 | Paul McGurnaghan 's shot came back off the base of the post and David Eddis was on hand to hammer the ball into the net . |
4 | As he pulled away , the leaves on the trees shuddered and the rain began to fall so hard that it jumped back off the tarmac , turned to mist . |
5 | Half time Coleraine 0 Omagh Town 3 Mark McWalter forced a brave save from devine in the 65th minute , his stunning 25 yard shot bounced back off the keeper and the Scotsman drove his follow up effort into the side netting . |
6 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
7 | Claim it back off the firm ? |
8 | This time he left both Stockwell and Phil Whelan gasping in his wake before executing a marvellous chip-shot which came back off the underside of the Ipswich crossbar . |
9 | Martha stepped back off the verandah , feeling a surge of fear conditioned by the beatings of earlier years . |
10 | Then back to the kitchen to clear up the mess before Dad got back off the night shift . |
11 | He returned Malkin 's right-wing ball for Irons to crash a shot back off the crossbar , Aldridge reacting instinctively to hook the rebound in . |
12 | Billy 's cottage was set back off the road , behind a neat little hedge . |
13 | I mean you want to see his house I mean it was set back off the road and you see the people pull ploughing |
14 | If the ball is left short it is virtually impossible to save par as the approach shot will almost certainly spin back off the green , leaving the player with a chip shot which will be equally as difficult to keep on the green the other side . |
15 | With only three minutes remaining Paul Mooney 's corner produced a powerful header from Paul Curran which thundered back off the Bohemians ' woodwork . |
16 | And if there were h a wagon or a hutch went off the road there you were with not enough height to lift it all back off the rail again and believe me that was experience in itself . |
17 | Barnes was desperately unlucky after a magnificent one-two with McManaman to see his volley come back off the foot of the post . |
18 | They had already been unlucky with just five minutes remaining in normal time , when Neil Webb 's shot cannoned back off the foot of the post . |
19 | The alternative infra-red system uses a beam which is emitted from the camcorder and reflected back off the subject , the time taken for the reflection to return being measured and converted to a distance setting . |
20 | He stepped back off the bed and started to unbuckle his belt . |
21 | A fabulous drive from Knell cannoned back off the Cliftonville upright from fully 25 yards — and the visitors breathed again . |
22 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
23 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
24 | The ball came back off the post and Whelan touched it in . |
25 | Clinton Ford 's sweetly struck free-kick came back off the post and Paul Read scrambled home the rebound . |
26 | But much of it is reflected back off the Earth 's surface — at a different wavelength — not as short wave , but as long wave radiation . |
27 | So next weekend when you come back off the induction you should be fired up , let's see what we 're really gon na to do here yeah . |
28 | I 'll pay you what I owe and then get it back off the agency . ’ |
29 | You ca n't step back off the ladder — and they do n't ‘ arf itch ! ’ |
30 | The radar waves bounce back off the cars that approach , and are registered by the receiving apparatus . |