Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 2 | They are unlikely to welcome other rail operators creaming off their business . |
| 3 | This is a no-nonsense restaurant full of regulars : a child on Dad 's shoulders ; teenagers in Day-Glo shorts who skateboard away afterwards ; workmen in overalls ; weary shoppers with bulky carrier bags stopping off before getting the bus home . |
| 4 | Specialist services specialist services hiving off . |
| 5 | That 's right , it 's erm obviously with the developments this morning erm on one of the erm French news reporters having seem some Israeli war planes going off , I mean things are sort of worsening by the minute . |
| 6 | Visions of Dr. Martens steel-caped boots with shorts in summer and empty split peat bags warding off sudden downpours in winter are all too realistic . |
| 7 | Varig offers day and night flights taking off every week from 12 cities in 9 different countries . |
| 8 | However , baby universes branching off and joining on will affect the apparent value of the cosmological constant . |
| 9 | There were numerous dirt tracks leading off from this road , but she did n't recall seeing it parked in any of them as she passed . |
| 10 | Although not further modified , No. 19 was later used as a breakdown towing car at Sutton depôt , still in full livery , but delicensed , with most of the paper advertisements peeling off . |
| 11 | Cos look at I mean in our street , our area alarms going off . |
| 12 | He compliments the production operator on the detailed attention he gives to the quality components coming off his line . |
| 13 | It 's misrepresented by downbeat books reeling off menus . |
| 14 | Its owner admitted to us that he 'd spent the Cullifords and other people 's insurance premiums paying off company debts , but insisted he was trying to get their money back . |
| 15 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 16 | All of this was contained within long classical façades , with corner pavilions setting off all four sides . |
| 17 | If the silicon chips coming off a production line begin to fail , ordinary optical-microscope pictures of the minute circuitry can often help to sort out what is going wrong . |
| 18 | But the nostalgia invokes the mythic existence of an interdependent and mutually supportive working class that was then broken up and scattered geographically forfeiting its cohesion and everyday solidarity for the false promises amenities an material improvements trading off its hopes of new of a truly better world for a bigger share in the spoils of the old one and the new fruits of the consumer society . |
| 19 | There he was , a chunky 47-year-old manic depressive with grey sideburns , wearing a blue shirt and tan waistcoat , with the stage lights reflecting off his sunglasses , singing his heart out , playing guitar , alto sax and harmonica , and thoroughly enjoying himself . |
| 20 | Up-and-down house prices levelling off |
| 21 | ‘ In some parts of the UK cuts in local authority spending and the move to the purchaser-provider split meant that for the first time students coming off social work courses were having real difficulties finding jobs ’ Weinstein said . |
| 22 | It sounds like fire engines going off above your head . |
| 23 | If if the fire alarms going off and you 're in the ladies loo |