Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another Vietnam but President Bush warned : ‘ Our mission is humanitarian and we will not tolerate armed gangs ripping off their own people . ’ |
| 2 | The usual assumption is that sex is a definable and universal experience , like the desire for food , with the minority or unorthodox forms filtering off into distributaries , which may , or more usually may not , be navigated by the conscientious explorer . |
| 3 | ‘ With the exception of a few broken computers sliding off desks , and other such minor damage , the plant came through the quake in good condition . |
| 4 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 5 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 6 | His hands now were lustrous with silvery scales flaking off ugly patches of red . |
| 7 | It is a daunting sight : a seventeen-foot drop through a complex arrangement of boulders , holes , standing waves , scissor waves , and lateral waves rebounding off a sheer wall on the right . |
| 8 | A staircase broad as a major highway wound up through the tree , with vast rooms leading off at every landing . |
| 9 | My inquiries reveal that most of these are caused by exercise programmes devised by ignorant charlatans feeding off our need for health . |
| 10 | It 's also a doddle to lay ; Ethernet uses a linear bus , which means that network stations are connected to a single cable a bit like electric sockets hanging off a mains cable . |
| 11 | There were several hot-water pipes leading off from the stove , heated rails where wet clothes were hung to dry and plates of food were left to keep warm after serving . |
| 12 | Equally , the relative expansion of the non-industrial sector was uneven , with a net decline in transport and communications , with growth in the distributive trades tapering off from 1960 , and with both ‘ Insurance , banking and finance ’ and ‘ Professional and scientific services ’ showing an accelerating growth of employment over the period . |
| 13 | These , with automatic fire-alarms going off inexplicably , account for a far higher percentage of calls than do fires . |
| 14 | On the occasions of my own visits I always manage to see something new when I visit Rutland Water : a preening water rail in full view below Lax Hill , four buoyant , saw-billed goosanders showing off their diving skills , short-eared owls roosting at dusk on the fence posts of the Hambleton Peninsula , a pair of displaying great crested grebes presenting mutual gifts of waterweed … |
| 15 | The explanation for this being that weather caused by frequent vigorous systems coming off a relatively warm Atlantic is not conducive to lengthy spells of severe frost . |
| 16 | It was like a nightmare to sit and listen to the loose stones bouncing off my windscreen and bodywork as the lorry passed me at about 70mph . |
| 17 | A survey in 1982 found that a third of the left-wing Labour councillors either worked for another local authority ( including teachers ) or were full-time councillors living off their allowances . |
| 18 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 19 | Then I was ready , ignoring Mala 's stifled giggles and her remark that the mauve roll-flaps topping off my boots were going too far . |
| 20 | Entirely new ventures , especially in areas of very advanced technology like microelectronics , have frequently been pioneered by small firms spinning off as satellites from parent companies . |
| 21 | Daylight showed a rough-walled stone entranceway and several small tunnels leading off from it . |
| 22 | Negotiations with the papacy by both parties were in train and the bishops and princes changed sides like rich men throwing off old clothes . |
| 23 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 24 | I looked out of a window to see what he was looking at , but there seemed to be nothing of great note , only the racegoing passengers streaming off their forward carriages en route to write postcards home from the station . |
| 25 | It was a multi-storey orientalist , almost pagoda-like confection , sporting elaborately carved verandas , valances , and outside staircases with rustic covered ways leading off from it . |
| 26 | Present-day sporting heroes tend to spend their off-duty moments sounding off about anything and everything . |
| 27 | Narrow , straight streets ; one long , thin one , like a spine down the middle and short , stumpy ones leading off , steeply climbing the hillside . |
| 28 | The Norman Towers — Entering through these it is easy to imagine the Knights of the Middle Ages setting off for battle , banners flying and a host of bowmen and falconers bringing up the rear . |
| 29 | So they 're going to go see then you get other branches coming off of that one |
| 30 | the same and other branches coming off of that one and other branches coming off of that one it 's sort of gets smaller and smaller and is gets |