Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 | The killer made off through rush-hour traffic on a bicycle , later found abandoned a short distance down the road . |
| 4 | Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 1b SINGLE TAPE TIED OFF WITH OVERHAND KNOT |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Brian rarely took holidays , but most years Jean went off to such exotic spots as the Maldive Islands , the Seychelles or St Lucia . |
| 10 | Brechin had midfielder Doug Scott sent off after 60 minutes for his second booking . |
| 11 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A Central Council meeting on 2 July passed off with some display of enthusiasm , and gave Baldwin a unanimous vote of confidence . |
| 14 | The helicopters lifted off at 1030 hours . |
| 15 | The general theory of relativity , on its own , can not explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity . |
| 16 | It is n't that all the matter in the Universe started off from one particular point in space and then kept on expanding into the rest of the space . |
| 17 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 18 | SPUC took off in 1966–7 . |
| 19 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 20 | Even the most reliable equipment is at the mercy of the fuse in the plug , and I would hope that if the Rocon circuit went off for this ( or any other reason ) , the remaining 200 watts would keep the tank from lethal chilling until I spotted the problem ( I am often away for days at a time ) |
| 21 | Boys-Stones took off in one of 69 Squadron 's Marylands ( AR706 ) for a reconnaissance over the Fliegerkorps X headquarters area at Taormina . |
| 22 | And their concerns rubbed off on some of the elderly residents who spent an uncertain Christmas not knowing whether they would be staying or be forced to leave . |
| 23 | Your interesting article on Slovakia and the Czech Republic disparages the countries spun off from another impossible conglomerate and forecasts a dire future for them . |
| 24 | With quality technicians creamed off from other studios , he could make cheap films so that they looked good and brought in a respectable profit . |
| 25 | Joy and Alan set off on one of their marathon walks , this time a coast-to-coast sponsored effort to raise money for our local church , one of the oldest in North Wales . |
| 26 | Her patience paid off at last when she heard Miss Hardbroom tell the girls to pack up their books , and after much clattering and bustling , the door closed and the laboratory fell silent . |
| 27 | That traditional patriarchy , two classes walled off from each other yet co-existent , is disturbed by the elevation of a farmhouse into a cottage ornee ‘ with its viranda , French windows , and other prettinesses ’ , for this contends with the great house for the traveller 's eye . |
| 28 | Normally , unless you have one of these keys , you would have to call the water company 's engineers if you wanted the mains turned off for any reason — perhaps to work on the mains stopcock inside the house . |
| 29 | The day 's individual performance came striker Gary MacDonald , who scored all four of his side 's goals in their 4–1 home win Blue Mark Outterside gave Blue Star the lead after six minutes , but the visitors then had Micky Robinson sent off for dangerous play . |
| 30 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |