Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUPERMARKET chains are ripping off customers by packaging joints of beef with extra fat . |
| 2 | In this case , the shareholders are passing off some risk on to the manager . |
| 3 | More and more self-build projects are taking off all over the NorthEast and Mr Edwards said clear guidelines had to be laid down . |
| 4 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 5 | My manners are tearing off heads — |
| 6 | Doing it for real : forget well-toned bodies and cute faces , America 's home porn addicts are getting off on sex between Mr and Mrs Average ( and we mean average ) |
| 7 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 8 | There are only two thousand still alive in the city , and the survivors are dying off daily . |
| 9 | These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres . |
| 10 | Voices are signing off all over Deptford as guys quit their lookout duties and come rushing over . |
| 11 | As usual his tactics were paying off . |
| 12 | New sub-disciplines are taking off at an extraordinary rate , associated in particular with the integration of computer systems into society 's systems of communication , management and finance . |
| 13 | TOP Of The Pops is to be axed after 28 years because youngsters are switching off in droves . |
| 14 | The EPA insists that deals are better than lengthy lawsuits , but some in Congress suspect that polluting companies are getting off lightly . |
| 15 | ‘ But when companies are laying off workers , they ca n't then be seen to donate money to charity . |
| 16 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 17 | Your trousers are falling off . |
| 18 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 19 | If you were at Gatwick recently and wondered why all the planes were taking off and landing on the taxi-way , well it was all because of Rentokil Hygiene . |
| 20 | Planes were taking off . |
| 21 | And down King Edward 's docks all them boats was letting off their hooters . ’ |
| 22 | For a while supporters of the theory placed great faith in quasars — very distant galaxies whose cores are giving off colossal amounts of energy . |
| 23 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 24 | Now enlightened farmers are fencing off and replanting areas which can he selectively utilised for animal feeding . |
| 25 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 26 | The wheels are coming off , if you ask me . |
| 27 | The mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years and lending is shrinking steadily , partly because there is only a trickle of new customers and partly because existing customers are paying off at least part of their mortgages when they can . |
| 28 | Cos you get the sort of thing like things are dripping off and if you 've got germs in them and you 've had a bad |
| 29 | Things were tapering off . |
| 30 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |