Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlying assumption was that the likelihood of marriage between people from different villages drops off with increase in geographical distance between the villages . |
| 2 | Free neutrons are unstable , with a half-life of about 11 minutes , so as observed , the intensity drops off with time as the slower-moving neutrons had more time to decay . |
| 3 | In the first the record that is added is inserted into its correct position in the file , and the record at the end of the track to which it was added drops off into overflow . |
| 4 | She hoots and is about to say something , but she holds off in front of Darius and squints at me to see what I mean . |
| 5 | Did you see in the papers that any anybody who lives off near Harewood House is it Harewood ? |
| 6 | Next month , a group heads off to Tuttlingen in Germany . |
| 7 | Gold winner heads off to San Marino |
| 8 | I , I have a quandary here cos I 'm not quite sure whether I should be asking a question or proposing something against the deliverance but I have attended and er listened to a number of debates arising out of this matter of er the baptism of children and time and again it 's struck me that it starts off about baptism but it turns out to be a discussion about the parents . |
| 9 | The aim starts off on target but then performance falls off and the target is missed . |
| 10 | She starts off in chicken stuffer 's uniform as seen in Letter To Brezhnev and ends up in designer punk bondage dress and boxing boots . |
| 11 | Down ) and Gary Stevenson ( Royal Portrush ) on Monday as the 1993 Irish News sponsored £6,000 championship tees off at Lurgan . |
| 12 | The waitress , feeling like she has done her best , storms off with tears brimming to talk to the manager . |
| 13 | And the child storms off in fury because you do n't understand , and because this activity you billed as ‘ fun ’ has suddenly ceased to be any fun at all . |
| 14 | Ray Coventry casts off from Cruises |
| 15 | A vast studio on the downward slope of a hill where the chic sixteenth arrondissement shades off towards Neuilly . |
| 16 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 17 | Maradona 's magic rubs off on Gazza |
| 18 | Then she flies off to Milan in search of a richer , darker continental flavour provided by smoothie Italian Marino Mase . |
| 19 | So JAMES ‘ FRANK N. FURTER ’ PRICE nips off into town to show us around the latest Zeppelin creation . |
| 20 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 21 | Bobby signs off in style |
| 22 | He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight . |
| 23 | Passive wanking Vicky Hutchings marches off with Class War , and gets a big surprise |
| 24 | ELECTION WATCH Passive wanking Vicky Hutchings marches off with Class War , and gets a big surprise Saturday 4 April |
| 25 | Barbra buzzes off over bees |
| 26 | 08.30 Fred Allcock , who has already been given temporary hand-written despatch documents by John Bell , drives off to Stadium Plastics . |
| 27 | A side road turns off to Achmelvich , renowned for its rocky coast and excellent sandy beaches , but on a recent visit I was disappointed to find the place robbed of its appeal by a tight concentration of caravans . |
| 28 | A stage direction suggests devils appear and Faustus goes off with Mephostophilis . |
| 29 | British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock . |
| 30 | The voices of , among others , Joss Ackland , Claire Bloom , Roy Kinnear and Rik Mayall give us a tale of pretty Princess Irene whose father the King goes off on business . |