Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 2 | CHRIS Waddle limped off after 38 minutes with troubled knee ligaments after his £1million move to Sheffield Wednesday from Marseilles . |
| 3 | IBM 'S POWER OPEN ASSOCIATION KICKS OFF WITH FIVE SPONSORS — MORE IN THE WINGS |
| 4 | The killer made off through rush-hour traffic on a bicycle , later found abandoned a short distance down the road . |
| 5 | Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely . |
| 6 | It was a light , airy room with some small paintings on the wall and two small clean bedrooms leading off on each side . |
| 7 | Andy leads off up large , friable flakes , hair plastered to his head but now mercifully sheltered . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Stiffly , arm in arm , the Brothers walked off towards that place of deprivation which was in a dark gondola jutting below the fortress-monastery into the lonely void . |
| 10 | At least he and Ari get off on each other . |
| 11 | 1b SINGLE TAPE TIED OFF WITH OVERHAND KNOT |
| 12 | So they 're going to go see then you get other branches coming off of that one |
| 13 | the same and other branches coming off of that one and other branches coming off of that one it 's sort of gets smaller and smaller and is gets |
| 14 | the same and other branches coming off of that one and other branches coming off of that one it 's sort of gets smaller and smaller and is gets |
| 15 | Herrick looked away past him , his eyes staring off into some imaginary distance . |
| 16 | Equally , the relative expansion of the non-industrial sector was uneven , with a net decline in transport and communications , with growth in the distributive trades tapering off from 1960 , and with both ‘ Insurance , banking and finance ’ and ‘ Professional and scientific services ’ showing an accelerating growth of employment over the period . |
| 17 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |
| 18 | Rectal dialysis bags were made from inch Visking Tubing ( Medicell ) with a molecular weight cut off of 12000–14000 filled with Rheomacrodex ( Pharmacia ) as previously described . |
| 19 | Things went Charlton 's way against a Sunderland side that had John Kay sent off after 15 minutes and then conceded two bizarre second-half own goals . |
| 20 | Brian rarely took holidays , but most years Jean went off to such exotic spots as the Maldive Islands , the Seychelles or St Lucia . |
| 21 | He should be working , she thought , her mind taking off down another route . |
| 22 | Brechin had midfielder Doug Scott sent off after 60 minutes for his second booking . |
| 23 | Motorbikes taking off with ear-shattering roar . |
| 24 | Feeling the pinch : chief executive Jane Tozer ( left ) and marketing manager Jill Warren ( right ) expect potential clients to hold off for some time . |
| 25 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 26 | Not all hairs come off in one go however , and you may need to go over sections again and again . |
| 27 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |
| 28 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 29 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 30 | The total of bad debts written off by state-owned regional banks had reached almost A$3,000 million since the deregulation in 1984 of banking activities [ see p.33533 ] . |