Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 2 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 3 | WHAT is the protocol at a smart lunch when one 's neighbour drops off during the speeches ? |
| 4 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 5 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 6 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 7 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 9 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 10 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 11 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 12 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 13 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 14 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 15 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 16 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 17 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 18 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
| 19 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 20 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 21 | Yeah everybody starts off as a sergeant . |
| 22 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 23 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 24 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 25 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 26 | Freud 's finding was that guilt is , starts off as an aggressive drive in the id that could go anywhere , preferably towards other people , but the superego uses some of this aggression and destructive energy arising in the id and then turns it back against the ego , and uses it to punish the ego , so the aggression , instead of going into someone else or into the outside world , is turned back against the self and to that extent is self-destructive . |
| 27 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 28 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 29 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 30 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |