Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] off on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 2 | instead of growing up straight look one of those things has broke off on that Alec |
| 3 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 4 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 5 | Amanda , do you want to kick off on this ? |
| 6 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 7 | And once in a while Elvis did dash off on some divine business or other . |
| 8 | This view seems to have rubbed off on foreign , non-Marxist interpreters of the passage of NEP , who as a whole are inclined to think that a cultural policy of laissez-faire was pursued throughout NEP . |
| 9 | After the cover had popped off on 31 January , the infrared detectors recorded their first observation : a fluctuating signal due to the receding cover as it spiralled out of the telescope 's view . |