Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | So with borrowed gear , no harness and a stranger I set off . |
| 2 | She looked wonderful , in a short skirt which showed off her long legs and a hip-length jacket which emphasized her shape . |
| 3 | Underneath it she was clad in a close-fitting N. Peal black sweater which showed off her figure to full advantage . |
| 4 | However , as a ‘ courageous ’ cut and sewer , as well as being a past owner of a Brother Electronic with garter carriage which casts off automatically , I decided that I would never go back to a latch tool cast off and that it was a waste of time in any case if I was intending to cut the fabric ! |
| 5 | In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs . |
| 6 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 7 | Without a word or a glance she ran off , shouting , ‘ Oliver , Oliver , ’ in a high , affected voice . |
| 8 | In the bedroom she took off her blouse and skirt and hung them carefully in the wardrobe . |
| 9 | POLICE are searching for the driver of a crashed car who ran off leaving his passenger trapped in the wreckage . |
| 10 | At the end of the ceremony she tottered off to the bus , looking as if she had every intention of popping in to the local when she got home and livening everyone up with a steady dropping of ‘ To think our ‘ Ilda should go before me ’ remarks . |
| 11 | To re-seal a half-used cartridge , take the piece you cut off the end of the nozzle and push it into the nozzle the other way round |
| 12 | She uses the example of a shepherd who works off his malevolence towards the human race by ill-treating his dogs . |
| 13 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
| 14 | Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises . |
| 15 | In the car we bounded off to the reception at AMS , or Associated Medical Services , on Route 6 . |
| 16 | Back in the car we peel off our sticky layers |
| 17 | In the last chapter we started off in two relatively small pens , but then escaped and roamed all over the farm . |
| 18 | FOLLOWING two years of fund raising and six to eight weeks hard net practice we set off for the Far East on December 16 , 1991 for a combined cricket and hockey tour . |
| 19 | Air Force One lifted off from London Heathrow on schedule at 2.02 p.m. , climbed out from Runway 27 Left and turned south on track for Paris . |
| 20 | When they were challenged from a window by the owner of the car they ran off down an alleyway . |
| 21 | At nightfall they set off down the escarpment and in holiday mood were soon bowling merrily along the coast road . |
| 22 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 23 | Back in his bedroom he pulled off his under-blanket . |
| 24 | In his memoirs he revels in the audacity of the fraud he pulled off : |
| 25 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 26 | Therefore to make sure of this important condition he took off his trousers and sat down on the seed-bed , thus testing the warmth of Mother Earth through the most sensitive part of his anatomy . |
| 27 | Puzzling over this , I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick . |
| 28 | The men are so lovely , enormous and gentle , brown as amber — enormous black eyes and stiff bristly black hair which spurts off their foreheads like solidified jet and glitters blue in the sunshine . |
| 29 | A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits . |
| 30 | ‘ It was really the loss of that one large contract which finished off the company , until then the factory had been fully committed ’ said Mr Madden . |