Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 2 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 3 | The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium . |
| 4 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 5 | If it is , it none the less dates back explicitly to 1961 when he played Littlechap , the Everyman figure who makes it big , in Stop The World — I Want To Get Off at the Queen 's . |
| 6 | Northside have taken a trip from the street to the stage without appearing to stop off at the rehearsal room , and display no remorse at waltzing straight into the charts . |
| 7 | Northside have taken a trip from the street to the stage without appearing to stop off at the rehearsal room , and display no remorse at waltzing straight into the charts . |
| 8 | If you want to head off into the higher mountains , cross-country skiing is n't the best sport for children : the effort , though not strenuous , is constant , and children under ten could tire if asked to ski for longer than a half-day . |
| 9 | While he was doing this , an Imperial Airways airliner , due to fly to London , prepared to lumber off across the Channel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
| 13 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 14 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 15 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 16 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 19 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 20 | The rain at this end of the island tends to die off towards the end of March , but it has certainly damaged pitches including that at the Government Stadium , which Paterson reckoned would be deemed unplayable by most clubs in Scotland . |
| 21 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 22 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 23 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | FINAL FLIGHT : The jet prepares to take off before the crash |
| 26 | Some of the scenes , such as the ‘ fly-by-wire ’ shots of an Allison-powered unmanned replica P–40 attempting to take off during the attack , did not go as planned but actually turned out better . |
| 27 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
| 28 | The excitement died away and the crowd began to drift off down the side streets . |
| 29 | It also suits the fans likewise , who quite like to pop off to the cricket after lunch , and who also might like to travel to away league matches without having to leave before dawn to see the first ball bowled . |
| 30 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to ease off with the rush hour traffic at the moment , not too bad at all at the moment . |