Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shook his head quickly as if he were warding off a sneeze and concentrated on Jim , whose affable plasticine face now seemed sharper and more ambitious . |
| 2 | She was fanning her cheeks desultorily when she realised with a start that they were pulling off the road and Niall was bringing the car to a halt . |
| 3 | There was the time we were getting off a crowded coach on a day trip to Brighton and he pushed me back into my seat . |
| 4 | Erm , the oil company continue to invest in capital expenditure , as it should do and er , most of that is spent between services , drilling and , and radar and at , Tussauds we continue to invest er , Alton Towers has got er , the Ghost House opening today and the Runaway Train and we were finishing off the Marylebone Road project , which is a very big , big project involving er , re the complete refurbishment er , new shops and a view right there in the basement . |
| 5 | Functionalists imply that roles are provided by the social system and individuals enact their roles as if they were reading off a script which contains explicit directions for their behaviour . |
| 6 | A lot of people were falling off a lot of things in the City . |
| 7 | Politically it was the awakening of these groups which was most important , for as Professor Christie has concluded : |
| 8 | At least you 're sure it was n't me , I was knocking off a few fish at the same time , remember ? ’ |
| 9 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 10 | She was pulling off the beautiful antique ring . |
| 11 | She looked the place over while Josie was paying off the cab . |
| 12 | They were all coming into East Kilbride , there was b cos after all there was starting off a new town and they was building up then from it . |
| 13 | One figure was letting off a Roman candle . |
| 14 | The puerto Rican mass murderer was letting off a pump-action shotgun into a bus queue in downtown Los Angeles . |
| 15 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 16 | Leslie 's body was fighting off an infection known as toxoplasmosis . |
| 17 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Corp Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 18 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA was showing off a prototype workstation built around the DEC Alpha AXP RISC and running Microsoft Windows NT at the Hannover CeBit show a couple of weeks ago . |
| 19 | Performance Technologies was showing off a new system last week targeted at OEMs and integrators active in the real-time and embedded markets . |
| 20 | At last week 's Orbit trade show in Switzerland , Pinnacle was showing off the first in what will be a family of Mbus PDS-3 systems that 'll house Hypersparc and be followed by PDS-10 , Sparcstation 10-compatibles next year . |
| 21 | Another night Penn was with them when they disarmed a guy who was shooting off a shotgun in the street . |