Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I did and it 's very strange I remember toddling off with this little chap and er and Miss said , Who is this then ? or words to that effect . |
| 2 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 3 | okay , round the base of your thumb , basically what we want to do is we want to clamp these fingers in so they ca n't come un unstuck , we want to push them together because she ca n't keep them shut like that , but the next thing is that you come round to the back where the little finger is , the next time you come round here , you 're gon na come round to about the first thumb joint okay and then you 're gon na go over the top okay and if you come round again the little thumb , by , by the little finger , you come round again to the thumb joint okay , come over the top again , round , we 're just making really like the figure of eight , but all the time we 're keeping off of this wrist here and I 'm keeping her fingers in , are you alright still ? |
| 4 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 5 | Driving off to greener pastures |
| 6 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 7 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 8 | And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos . |
| 9 | As the weapon spun off into the darkness , Angel One released his grip on Louise and shoved her stumbling off to one side , at the same time drawing Jim Miller square in front of him to maintain his human shield . |
| 10 | ‘ You know you 're not to go wandering off like that ! |
| 11 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 12 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 13 | You 'll be hanging off with that |
| 14 | Pissing off like that … |
| 15 | We had to move around without stepping off in alphabetical order . |
| 16 | He noted that return on individual lots would obviously be better for vendors at 9% than Christie 's current 15%-10% but that the levelling off to one figure meant that Christie 's will look more competitive overall whenever they enter the market . |
| 17 | In patients who underwent uncomplicated major surgery , however , CRP rose above baseline eight to 12 hours after incision , and reached a maximum in 48 to 72 hours , before levelling off towards normal over five to 14 days . |
| 18 | Expenditure rose substantially from 13 per cent of total expenditure in 1978/9 , to 24 per cent in the early and mid-1980s , with a slight decline in 1983/84 when financial difficulties were at their height , levelling off at 22 per cent in the late 1980s . |
| 19 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 20 | Even darting off to foreign places can be a waste of time , so he delegates this to his deputies . |
| 21 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 22 | caterpillar I 'll have that yellow and blue in the middle there dear sneaking off with that thank you . |
| 23 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 24 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 25 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 26 | Most brides prefer the over-all tan provided by the sunbed and this is particularly good if the couple are nipping off to sunny climes for their reception . |
| 27 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 28 | He 's taken to going off on one or other of his ships — quite reasonably , because he is managing director of the shipping company . |
| 29 | Could I also give Mr a bit more thinking time by going off on another angle ? |
| 30 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |