Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can take a cruise down the Nile , fly off to sun-drenched Barbados or choose any holiday you wish . |
| 2 | We shall be leaving Peking for Sian at 11.30 this evening , and the comrades have given us a rousing send off with beautiful presents including a big embroidered tablecloth and napkins , and a beautiful framed picture made out of shells , with an inscription written on it specially for & I. They also gave us the enclosed photos , which give you an idea of what life is like here . |
| 3 | '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some . |
| 4 | the number of consumers cut off for non-payment rose to 21.286 in 1991/92 — an increase of 177% from the previous year . |
| 5 | The responsible USSR ministries were to ensure uninterrupted transport through Lithuania , especially to the major Lithuanian port of Klaipeda and to Kaliningrad , a strategically important exclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic coast , cut off by Lithuanian territory from the rest of the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | Cut off from close friends and sympathetic counsellors , and without any creed to turn to for support , he was in an ideal condition to respond to a new spiritual guide : his discovery of Schopenhauer when browsing one day in Leipzig bookshop seemed like an event preordained . |
| 7 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 8 | Cut off from normal social intercourse with the adult world , relieved of inhibition by the ethos of the Permissive Society , the students were apt to run wild , indulging in promiscuous sex and experimenting with drugs , or else they turned melancholy mad . |
| 9 | It is as much due to his neglect as my intervention that you find yourself thus , cut off from normal society . |
| 10 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 11 | It is not a place where one spends all day , every day , cut off from other people , and self-contained large units which provide all residents ' daytime activities on site face the danger of becoming merely ‘ wards ’ in the community , new types of ‘ closed ’ institution . |
| 12 | Islands are of particular theoretical interest because nature reserves and lakes are also , effectively , islands ; limited areas , cut off from similar areas . |
| 13 | Ovid by the Black Sea , cut off from native speech , he wrote . |
| 14 | As pressure for land grows , more and more of Sri Lanka 's surviving elephants find themselves cut off in small patches of forest surrounded by agriculture . |
| 15 | Those of you who jet off to foreign parts for your hols and fly from Chamden airport , may be interested to know that your flight path probably heads out over The Welfare Field . |
| 16 | Kafka and Milena take fright and run off in different directions . |
| 17 | He tugged his silk tie off with strong hands , shrugging out of his jacket in a blur of darkly flushed cheekbones and glittering , fevered eyes , then they were together again . |
| 18 | Line managers have discretion to give people time off as special leave . |
| 19 | How come the V&A 's lift signs are still made of black chipboard with white plastic letters that drop off at regular intervals ? |
| 20 | From the same tee , the two Jims drive off in fine style , Jim Hopkins on the left and Jim Hair on the right . |
| 21 | He 's into fun and games in bed , all the horny things that I get off on like spankings and Polaroid pictures . |
| 22 | Still with the chap in the lightweight , knee-length anorak of French origin , very popular with bearded prannies who wear ethnic shoes , get off on Olde English folk music and have girlfriends called Ros who run encounter groups where you can find your true self and be at one with the cosmos . |
| 23 | Next morning , after a leisurely start , we set off across bare rock beds from our base camp beneath the steep snow slopes of the Mera La . |
| 24 | Armed with wooden swords , cardboard breast plates , and now shields , we set off with renewed enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Subtle metallic sheens and bold black spots and lines set off with red areas of finnage , combine to produce a truly pretty fish . |
| 26 | On that first day we set off with high hopes of finding out what the foxes were doing and to work out where to concentrate our filming efforts . |
| 27 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 28 | As soon as they set off on separate duties , they both visibly relaxed . |
| 29 | Eventually , after one false start , when Edward assumed ( wrongly ) that Helen would not come , they set off in late November '95 for a short walk to Wimbledon , followed four days later by a trip to Croydon . |
| 30 | How to use : As for previous recipe , but rinse off with tepid water . |