Example sentences of "[vb -s] off and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 2 | One gripes and holds off and bangs the pillows and thinks the real thing is to come , and then one starts to lose the thread . |
| 3 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 4 | Confidence rubs off and pays dividends . |
| 5 | The man will then , at least have to get the consent of the woman before he goes off and sells their joint property . |
| 6 | All of a sudden , one of these ideal mothers goes off and leaves her children . |
| 7 | Then the private car rolls to a stop , and he gets off and walks back to Cartier . ’ |
| 8 | As November approaches , the end part of its body starts to swell until , on the night of the full moon , it breaks off and explodes , releasing eggs or sperm . |
| 9 | Once the virus is completely surrounded the spherical pit breaks off and reseals to leave the virus inside the cell but enclosed within a membrane coat . |
| 10 | Every few minutes a large solid mass breaks off and topples forward in a cascade of loose , glowing material , and comes to rest a few feet from the main mass , leaving a fading , sullen red glowing scar to mark the place on the flow where it came from . |
| 11 | A piece of one chromosome breaks off and joins another chromosome . |
| 12 | She just fires off and has n't really grown up . |
| 13 | [ PAMELA , in tears , rushes off and meets MRS . |
| 14 | Attached to the bottom of the betalite , which is encased in a plastic tube for protection , is a length of braided terylene tied at the other end to my back rod-rest , so that when I strike the indicator pulls off and drops to the ground . |
| 15 | From time to time he wanders off and chats to someone . |
| 16 | Of course Ann sends off and says yeah . |
| 17 | If he walks off and leaves me someone might see me left on my own ’ . ’ |
| 18 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 19 | The one sets off and contrasts with the other , and a choir should give a lead as much to the spoken as to the sung parts . |
| 20 | Because of the constrictions in the blood vessels — rather like the necks of hour-glasses — there is practically no loss of blood and the blunt end of the tail-stump quickly dries off and hardens . |
| 21 | She pushes off and lets herself drift a few feet above the ground , holding her skirt round her knees . |
| 22 | The second , Blues and Beyond , takes over where the first leaves off and plunges deeper into the chromatic tones and chord substitutions Robben uses in his playing , and highlights two tracks from his ‘ Talk to You Daughter ’ album , Nothin' But The Blues and Revelation . |
| 23 | Dick does n't follow him in fact he thinks the bloke is trying to get off with him which is a bit of a laugh if you 've seen the Indian women , until the Indian runs off and fetches Miguel who 's one of the guides . |
| 24 | The most common example of correction-praise going wrong is where a dog runs off and refuses to come back , either rabbiting or playing with other dogs . |