Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 3 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We had to move around without stepping off in alphabetical order . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Even darting off to foreign places can be a waste of time , so he delegates this to his deputies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 10 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 11 | Well it 's , I mean it 's letting them know what 's going off at other prisons . |
| 12 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 13 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 14 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 15 | ‘ We want a plan formulated jointly by government , industry , research establishments and the academic community , which will prevent us all going off in different directions ’ , says , professor of aeronautics at the Cranfield Institute of Technology and chairman of the committee . |
| 16 | Yet standing in its austere reception hall , leading off to early Romano-British antiquities in one direction and library halls in the other , it is hard to deny the scope for a more populist approach . |
| 17 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 18 | These are major problems in identifying , and separating off from other policies , a specific area called ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 19 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 20 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 21 | WORK in the community is paying off for dedicated staff at Corporation Road Baptist Church in Darlington . |
| 22 | The investment in Penguin 's 12 merchandisers is not high , he says , and is paying off in increased business . |
| 23 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 24 | The only blot for scintillating Wigan was that Offiah handed Great Britain coach Mal Reilly a World Cup scare after limping off with damaged knee tendons . |
| 25 | Then back they go to continued breaking off on match-winning fish with their totally inadequate lines . |
| 26 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 27 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
| 28 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 29 | Just finishing off on electrical energy . |
| 30 | They are parasitic on fish , feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels . |