Example sentences of "[v-ing] off in [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 | 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 … ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had to move around without stepping off in alphabetical order . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But you know having said that they are there for a reason and the reason they are there for is is if the group did n't have somebody to pull them back down again then they 'd might be going off in all different directions doing all these wonderful things and ending up nowhere because you have n't had somebody who pulls them back and says well hold on a minute . |
| 9 | However , that did not stop the sense of adventure to a 20-year-old going off in 1933 in a very strange vessel called the Somersetshire , of which a very famous Air Force song will be sung for evermore . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It was great to hear so many risks being taken , and hugely satisfying to hear so many of them paying off in such exhilarating fashion . |
| 12 | The investment in Penguin 's 12 merchandisers is not high , he says , and is paying off in increased business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The economic seesaw has hit the ground with a bone-juddering thud yet again — jobs are flying off in all directions as redundancies explode , industries contract and small businesses collapse . |
| 15 | From the surreal to the ridiculous , stopping off in pomp-rock hell . |
| 16 | Encounters with Donald were documented for the next 6 years , during which time he travelled on a southward odyssey along some 480 km ( 300 miles ) of British coastline , from the Isle of Man to Wales and then to Cornwall , stopping off in small harbours , boat havens and coves along the way to socialise . |
| 17 | Central Office was able to keep going at full capacity through 1915 and 1916 , but here again there was a falling off in 1917 . |
| 18 | It is , perhaps inevitably , some way from the limb-flinging Jackson performances of old , during which , twisting into the microphone , Jackson 's body would appear to be making off in several directions at once . |
| 19 | Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam . |
| 20 | Both the sheep and the cows , after drying off in early June , went to the high mountain meadows during the summer , allowing the more accessible grass around the farm to be conserved either as hay or silage . |
| 21 | The windows were all shuttered and what paint was left was peeling off in huge flakes . |
| 22 | A minute later Sabrina swung the Renault into a narrow alleyway beside the house and emerged into a cobbled courtyard closed in on all sides by faded white walls , the paint peeling off in unsightly flakes to reveal greyish plaster underneath . |