Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEARLY 400 cattle were auctioned in just one hour without the animals , vendors or buyers going off to market when the first sale of fat stock by satellite television went on screen . |
| 2 | But you do collect bumps and bruises falling off windsurfers , so we insist on medical insurance . |
| 3 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 4 | FOOTBALL clubs have been urged to make early inspections if there is any doubt about their matches to prevent clubs and fans setting off unnecessarily . |
| 5 | The pops and bangs going off around the Porte de Versailles last week signalled a European industry in panic as the date for free access to the European market by the Japanese gets ever closer . |
| 6 | Then there is the theatre , built in jungle opulent , with pillars and balconies and statues lifting off on wings . |
| 7 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 8 | Pandemonium reigned , guns were firing and grenades going off . |
| 9 | While small , dead and still-bleeding little bodies lay like exposed carrion round the harbour , the weeping fathers hovered over them to stop the crows and flies finishing off what Gorbrandt 's men had started . |
| 10 | an ability to ventilate the lid will help you to control the humidity and therefore reduce the risk of seedlings and cuttings rotting off ; in summer it will help to prevent the propagator overheating . |
| 11 | It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it . |
| 12 | you know there 's no ifs and buts skiving off because she wants to do something else . |