Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 2 | Women 's increasing commitment to the labour market does not appear to pay off in the way that would be expected if people were actually rewarded according to their ability and effort . |
| 3 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 4 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 5 | I can literally push the bird out of the tree into a net or a box so I can take it home , because it ca n't see to fly off in the dark . |
| 6 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 7 | ‘ Contacts at professional and academic level , seminars , familiarisation with techniques , will build up a rapport which tends to pay off in the long run , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 9 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 10 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |
| 11 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 12 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 13 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 14 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 16 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 17 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 18 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 19 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 20 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 21 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 23 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 24 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 25 | It really does seem to have taken off in the U.S. since its team started losing . |
| 26 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 27 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 28 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 29 | More or less deliberately , what Lord Robert Cecil had pulled off in the peace Ballot was an irresistible fusion of pacifism and patriotism . |
| 30 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |