Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 2 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 3 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 4 | The second guy did n't even hit half that distance and the third took a couple of swings to send his ball skewing off at right angles . |
| 5 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
| 6 | Newspapers were full of stories of leukaemia clusters near nuclear establishments and of the long-term victims of Chernobyl and minor releases , people picked off at random within the pattern of statistical formulations . |
| 7 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 8 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 9 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 10 | Wave after wave of starlings take off at short 2–3 minute intervals , with a great roar of whirring wings . |
| 11 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |
| 12 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |