Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 2 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 3 | At this point , as often happened , his thoughts wandered off into irrelevant philosophical channels . |
| 4 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 5 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 6 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 7 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 8 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 9 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 10 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 11 | This includes a custody area allowing police vans to off-load prisoners in an area sealed off by double doors . |
| 12 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 13 | In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun . |
| 14 | The killer made off through rush-hour traffic on a bicycle , later found abandoned a short distance down the road . |
| 15 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 16 | The game was barely 10 minutes old when Peter Wright , an immensely strong Sport Page 31 prop , limped off with knee-ligament damage . |
| 17 | Tuppe limped off in hot pursuit . |
| 18 | CONFERENCE delegates yesterday swept aside a warning from the party leadership and called for the next Labour government to take back into public ownership immediately land sold off by privatised water companies . |
| 19 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 20 | The final got off to explosive start when in the seventh minute Glasgow were awarded a penalty . |
| 21 | Everton got off to good start but are slipping down the table … |
| 22 | CHARLES and Diana arrived in Greece for a make-or-break ‘ secret ’ holiday last night — and immediately zoomed off in separate speedboats . |
| 23 | When the first parade passed off without serious incident ( but with a massive police presence ) , the Portadown Orangemen reaffirmed their determination to go through the Tunnel on the Twelfth . |
| 24 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 25 | From the large entrance hall , old oak doors and passages led off to other parts of the house , a large open staircase facing them . |
| 26 | Once clear of the Swamp a number of minor paths led off to left and right . |
| 27 | Guy took the main road out of town , and then turned off into narrow , winding , leaf-fringed lanes until they were deep in the unique peace of the Cotswold countryside . |
| 28 | A television turned off by remote control continues to use a quarter of normal power because it needs to be electrically awake to receive the next remote signal to switch back on . |
| 29 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 30 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |