Example sentences of "[verb] off in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 2 | After stripping off in a Levi 's ad and Thelma & Louise , Brad Pitt has been hailed as the new James Dean , a sex symbol for the Nineties . |
| 3 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 4 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 5 | Everyone had a potential for narcissism because the baby starts off in a world of its own , in a state of primary narcissism . |
| 6 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 7 | Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back . |
| 8 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 9 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |
| 10 | The light swerves off in an instant , and it 's darker than ever . |
| 11 | A group of them , maybe as many as half a dozen , will slowly get to their feet from where they have been lying with the rest of the pride and , leaving the cubs and the males behind , walk off in a fashion which , although leisurely , has a grimly purposeful air . |
| 12 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 13 | During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell . |
| 14 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 15 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 16 | When Otis Griffith 's car was written off in an accident , he was able to relax and let someone else fight his legal battle for compensation , thanks to a little preplanning |
| 17 | The Cessna 310 used by FLYER magazine was written off in an accident on landing in December . |
| 18 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 19 | Now he could see the world ranging round him , as it were , free , exciting and full of possibilities , neither limited by the encircling arms of Jesus , nor somehow squared off in a kind of boxing ring , with Marx , Engels , Lenin and Hegel fierce at every corner , barring all the exits . |
| 20 | The raiders made off in a car which had been reported stolen earlier . |
| 21 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 22 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 23 | BRAVE Aaron Solomon , seven , had his thumb ripped off in a farm accident and surgeons sewed it back on after it was packed in ice lollies by his uncle . |
| 24 | NYUP ! goes off in a couple of hundred limey brains — and are ignored . |
| 25 | Swindon Town will be at home to Manchester City or Reading in the Fourth Round if they can beat Queens Park Rangers in the Third Round … that tie kicks off in an hours time in London … |
| 26 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 27 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 28 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 29 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 30 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |