Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sloping off at croup . |
| 2 | One reviewer slammed the 40-minute ‘ Blue Room ’ single as ‘ hippy excrement ’ , while the finale of ‘ UF Orb ’ finds the dolphins blasting off from Earth in a freshwater spaceship , leaving mankind to stew in his own toxic waste . |
| 3 | Mr Szuluc says his parents are pensioners who ca n't afford to clothe him , so in frustration he decided to stage a protest at his local DSS office in Stroud , stripping off in front of the other bemused claimants , and handing his borrowed clothes back to his brother . |
| 4 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 5 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 6 | ‘ Better hurry , or they 'll soon be knocking off for lunch . ’ |
| 7 | except then if you 're writing off for money to places like Telecom and it 's a national logo |
| 8 | I 'll be pushing off to bed I think , ’ he said , glancing at the clock and his watch . |
| 9 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 10 | When I got to know the two men well I got a visual image of these judgements — Lenin , solid and stocky , advancing at an even pace , and the slight figure of Bukharin galloping off in front , but always needing to feel Lenin 's presence . |
| 11 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Laboratories Inc , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 12 | What with Windows World upon us , Unix System Labs , possibly a victim of show envy , is branching off into show business . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but to accept defeat , which he did with an ill grace , stamping off in disgust followed by the jeers of the crowd and several small boys who ran behind him mimicking his rolling gait . |
| 14 | ‘ An absolute mint , ’ Cyril agreed , gazing off into space . |
| 15 | The levelling off in business failures , has not yet been completed . |
| 16 | Yet we did detect an easing off in harassment of Republicans and of itinerants . |
| 17 | BOURNEMOUTH Golden Oldies Hockey Festival International event for the over 35s with teams from Fiji , New Zealand , Canada and West Germany bullying off for supremacy in the week long tournament . |
| 18 | We are both pulling off into Polo Park , a large two-storey shopping mall which is our city 's pleasure palace of conspicuous consumption . |
| 19 | Such birds as starlings , which mimic many sounds from their environments , have been heard sounding off like factory sirens , ice-cream van signals or even police cars in a hurry . |
| 20 | ‘ If he signs it will be like all the fireworks going off on Bonfire Night . ’ |
| 21 | And Mum and Dad are going off on holiday on Saturday , so they wo n't be popping in to visit for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 22 | I was so excited to be a young bride going off on tour to Europe . |
| 23 | But free or not , no one should stop her going off with Midnight anywhere . |
| 24 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 25 | He wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 26 | You wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 27 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 28 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 29 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 30 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |