Example sentences of "[v-ing] off at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sloping off at croup . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The road serving Kinlochbervie is linked to the A.838 , branching off at Rhiconich . |
| 4 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 5 | But like , he was really sounding off at Joe ! |
| 6 | As for going off at tangents , my dear , I do it myself , hormone balance notwithstanding . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Expansion paying off at Bowater |
| 9 | I 'm getting off at Ibiza . |
| 10 | She caught her usual bus , but instead of getting off at Frankfurter Allee and catching the S-Bahn to Biesdorf , she stayed on it , all the way to Ostkreuz where , like Herr Nordern once before her , she made her way to Ostkreuz Police Station . |
| 11 | THE KEATONS release their new single ‘ Factor Alpha ’ in April ( produced by Carter USM 's Fruitbat ) and embark on a lengthy tour kicking off at Liverpool Picket |
| 12 | we 'll have to get our skates on for rugby … they 're kicking off at Kingsholm at seven o clock |
| 13 | No coming off at promenade down into Street . |
| 14 | No dropping off at Kellydonald |
| 15 | A ticking off at school , or a beating left me encrusted with guilt . |
| 16 | ‘ Still taking off at intervals , is he ? ’ |
| 17 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |
| 18 | Boats will take you up and down the river , stopping off at Kew Gardens , Richmond and its beautiful park and Greenwich Observatory and park , and the National Maritime Museum . |
| 19 | The economy will move directly from point A to point C without first stopping off at point B : no quantity response ensues from the monetary impulse . |
| 20 | IBM Corp is particularly proud of its advanced speech recognition personal computing system , which it is showing off at Comdex this week . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , IBM is particularly proud of its own advanced speech recognition personal computing system , which it was showing off at Comdex . |
| 22 | Yeah but I swear you should have heard Pete mouthing off at Joe ! |
| 23 | Dorris Thompson , aged 84 , of Park Square West , Jaywick , was described to Essex Coroner Dr Malcolm Weir as a ‘ thin frail elderly lady ’ who always turned her heating off at night . |
| 24 | The mind has an astonishing aptitude for skating off at tangents . |