Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece and Cyprus stay hot and dry , but the Balkans and Turkey are cooling off to a nice temperature for hikers . |
| 2 | Cooling off in a Scottish loch : riders from the Castle Riding Centre , Argyllshire . |
| 3 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 4 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 5 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 6 | His crisis is precipitated by word of his transfer to another school ; he staggers towards resigning from the school he 's at , and maybe from the profession , and then bunks off for a long afternoon 's superlager , home-brew and whisky with his brother , who is on the dole , and two of his brother 's mates . |
| 7 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 8 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 9 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 10 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 11 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 12 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 13 | To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush . |
| 14 | I sometimes head off to a certain place . |
| 15 | Two of London 's top match teams head off on a magic mystery tour this Sunday with the historic London AA Shield as their goal . |
| 16 | As on previous years , the start of the event which has come to be known simply as ‘ the ARC ’ was emotional : 121 boats ranging in size from 30ft to 75ft. ( 9 to 23m ) headed off for a transatlantic crossing to St Lucia in the Caribbean . |
| 17 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 18 | Top off with a concrete mix to fix the supports securely |
| 19 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 20 | Pierce finishes off with a ghostly version of the great Skip James ' ‘ Hardtime Killin' Floor Blues ’ , one last acoustic cry before the tape runs out and proof positive that the blues has never been in better hands . |
| 21 | To subscribe to ELT Journal , simply fill in the form on the back of this leaflet and send it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 22 | Make sure that you receive all four issues of the 1993 volume by filling out the form on the back of this leaflet and sending it off , with payment , to the address supplied overleaf , or send off for a free inspection copy . |
| 23 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 24 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 25 | In the Godfather , Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy . |
| 26 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 27 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 28 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 29 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 30 | The ideal LAN workstation starts off with a worthwhile degree of poke ( fast 386 with 4Mb of RAM ) and is upgradeable ( OverDrive socket or daughterboard , spare SIMM slots , easily uprated video ) . |