Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] new " in BNC.
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1 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
2 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
3 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
4 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
5 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
6 | Hundreds of workers marched on Westminster earlier this year , fearing that come privatisation , the millions in the BR pension fund would be creamed off by the new rail franchise companies . |
7 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
8 | Another political time bomb , waiting to go off in the New Year , is a Select Committee inquiry into Britain 's overall energy needs . |
9 | You go back into concentrated training in the spring highly motivated , starting off from a new plateau . |
10 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
11 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
12 | A spokesman for Rothmans , who have factories in Darlington and Spennymoor , said : ‘ We are a major employer in County Durham and it seemed natural to support the team as it sets off on a new challenge as a first-class county . |
13 | I lapsed into a semi-coma , only vaguely conscious that we came round again to the familiar spot and waited , then headed off in a new direction . |
14 | They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction . |
15 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
16 | All UI members — including SunSoft — will have to sign off on the new document , now in draft form , before it can be published . |
17 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |
18 | Last month I expressed the hope that , as the autocratic system of government in South Africa is replaced by a more democratic one , this might rub off on the new rugby bureaucracy . |
19 | Wilcock set off for the New World . |
20 | Marshall set off in a new direction . |