Example sentences of "[noun pl] [v-ing] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The pops and bangs going off around the Porte de Versailles last week signalled a European industry in panic as the date for free access to the European market by the Japanese gets ever closer . |
| 3 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 4 | all sorts going off in there |
| 5 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 6 | another one like that and then what happens is you 've got smaller branches lots of smaller branches coming off of piece |
| 7 | and then you 've got smaller branches coming off of the smaller branches |
| 8 | So they 're going to go see then you get other branches coming off of that one |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Herrick looked away past him , his eyes staring off into some imaginary distance . |
| 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 | Motorbikes taking off with ear-shattering roar . |
| 14 | In the 1830s they were being criticized for despoiling ‘ the crystalline beauties ’ of the local caves , or in other words bearing off as trophies the stalactites and stalagmites . |
| 15 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I thought it a bit extreme to take the unit off as I 've found a much simpler way of stopping this problem of the springs sounding off in the back . |
| 18 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 19 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 20 | Then there is the theatre , built in jungle opulent , with pillars and balconies and statues lifting off on wings . |
| 21 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 22 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 23 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He suggested that the jury should bring in a decision that would mean that ‘ in future , parents and doctors could make decisions on this awful problem without unidentified informers rushing off to the police . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been used to fares running off without paying in the past , ’ said one . |
| 27 | It is a long flight from the early days when pilots taking off from Cricklewood in North London looked out of the cockpit and saw the number sixteen bus overtaking them . |
| 28 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 29 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't know if there was lanes going off into town , whe or oh I do n't know . |