Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 2 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 3 | In this case the solvent has to be evaporated or boiled off at a low temperature . |
| 4 | If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats . |
| 5 | There were others in the period before each privatization when financial losses were being reduced or written off as part of a continuing process of rationalizing older , basic industries . |
| 6 | If the warts are very extensive or if local applications have failed , then the warts can be frozen , using liquid nitrogen , or burnt off with electro-cautery . |
| 7 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |
| 8 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 9 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 10 | A hawk had swooped low over the field of play , picked up the ball in its claws and flown off with it . |
| 11 | Sukarno , Hatta , their ministers and Sjahrir ( retained as an adviser ) were all arrested and flown off to places of exile . |
| 12 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |
| 13 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 14 | William , though himself without a helmet , fought like a lion to avenge his uncle 's death but was eventually overborne by weight of numbers as well as by another sword thrust from behind — and carried off into captivity . |
| 15 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 16 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 17 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 18 | One shuttle tanker , Polikon , was reported to have been hit for the fourth time and written off as a ‘ constructive total loss ’ ( CTL ) . |
| 19 | This car was stripped out and written off after being stolen from a car park . |
| 20 | Fans clutch at the wire like prisoners until snarled off by these four-legged automatons . |
| 21 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 22 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 23 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 24 | Within minutes they had roused sleeping children from four of those homes and driven off with them into the murky winter dawn . |
| 25 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 26 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 27 | English reinforcements approaching along the edge of the Carse were intercepted by the Earl of Moray and driven off in disorder , leaving heavy casualties . |
| 28 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 29 | and gone off at his own unorthodox tangent . |
| 30 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |