Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nationalisation saw the basic pattern retained , although the Scottish elements of the London Midland & Scottish and the London & North Eastern Railways were hived off to form a Scottish Region , and the North East based on York also became a separate region . |
| 2 | He remained in this post until 1860 , when he was replaced by Marshal Vaillant and the Ministry of State was hived off to become a separate office . |
| 3 | But the man raised no objections to a search and had dashed off to keep an appointment , leaving the police to their work . |
| 4 | The lights were turned off to keep the mosquitos away . |
| 5 | Although any number of segments may be used in forming the circle by varying the degree of the cut , I use 12 for the following reasons : using a lesser number creates sharper angles between segments and more material has to be turned off to obtain a smooth rounded surface . |
| 6 | Some-times the ‘ spiritual people ’ have reacted against the institutional church of their day , and broken off to form a ‘ pure church ’ consisting of themselves and likeminded friends and before long this new church has usually become as encrusted with barnacles as the one from which they broke away . |
| 7 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 8 | Two creditors , the consultant engineers on the project and the architects involved , have applied for a court order that the convent should be sold off to meet the debts . |
| 9 | The left hand bulkhead window was blanked off to take a fare-table frame . |
| 10 | The viewfinder is blanked off to show a smaller image . |
| 11 | Mrs Chandler , a senior occupational therapist from Chepstow , had set off to do the Coast to Coast Walk from Bees Head to Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 12 | The Rose-Noelle was well-equipped as Mr Glennie had set off to start a new life cruising the South Pacific . |
| 13 | Had set off to catch the bus . |
| 14 | Their party had set off to raid the Derna and Martuba airfields in a convoy of four German vehicles driven by SIG men with the French hidden in the back under tarpaulins . |
| 15 | Thus was born the technique of intense study of typical ‘ quadrats ’ or squares marked off to define a sample of the vegetation for the surrounding area . |
| 16 | Holcraft , having discovered his mistake while chatting to Sontag during the ride back to the hotel , had hurried off to find the other funeral directors . |
| 17 | Edward had gone off to see an editor at the BBC ; he wanted to talk about a project on the Third World , and the boy was at school . |
| 18 | And while we 're waiting for them , Bill Saltman 's gone off to direct the establishment of white slavery in South America . |
| 19 | Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen . |
| 20 | I think they have gone off to tell the rest of their family what happened . ’ |
| 21 | Without any hesitation , he had gone off to confront a possible intruder . |
| 22 | Have n't seen Dan in there for a long time , I thought he 'd left Lionel and gone off to get a a highly lucrative job somewhere You do n't somehow expect to see a , a young man with a university degree working in your local green grocer do you ? |
| 23 | The shirt was shrugged off to reveal a rock-hard male chest , copiously roughened with whorls of dark hair , and , as he caught her mesmerised expression , a suspicion of a grin tweaked the corners of a wide , well-shaped mouth , the top lip heavily indented , the bottom lip fuller . |
| 24 | The rubbish stuck to the bottom of the wax , and could easily be scraped off to leave the scented fawny cake clean and pure . |
| 25 | Often , the end of their beaks may be cut off to stop the hens pecking each other out of sheer boredom and neurosis . |
| 26 | In previous years the competition cakes had been auctioned off to benefit the Belltower Restoration Fund — and that had been the intention this year , too — but there would be no bidders , now . |
| 27 | During excitation , samples are heated and begin to outgas , producing more ions and concomitantly increasingly the electron beam current , which if unchecked will reach a preset level within the power unit and cause the high tension to be switched off to protect the gun . |
| 28 | After a day or two of piste-aching Jack threw in the towel and headed off to join the cross-country skiers . |
| 29 | But the putt slid past and the gallery headed off to witness the Salver 's first four-way decider and the emergence of a new force in Hants golf . |
| 30 | Ukrainian sources claimed that ninety-two wagons of grain were collected from starving Ukrainian gubernii , of which thirty-six were sent off to feed the hungry in the Volga-Ural area . |