Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hooked nose and moustache looked like the plastic variety that would have come off with his thick-lensed spectacles . |
| 2 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 3 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 4 | We 're just like , the other day I was doing the washing-up and I was just like , stripping off with my outer layers |
| 5 | ‘ On Saturday the 14th , I was carried off on my reserve team debut at Arsenal with ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments . |
| 6 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 7 | And as my few Acquaintance did not take to me upon the Account of Poetry , so they will scarcely fall off upon its ill Success |
| 8 | And she moved off to her own prayers . |
| 9 | The badge of a civilized man , ’ said the Devil , and wandered off in his short breeches , his ribs showing even through the dark curly hair on his back . |
| 10 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 11 | As I reached the road the jeep roared off with its dead and wounded , leaving in its wake the usual cloud of dust . |
| 12 | On a bright and chilly Saturday in November , Napier Alumni Golfing Society teed off with their inaugural meeting , at Gullane Golf Club . |
| 13 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 14 | Robyn rose early to skies that promised a truly blissful day of warm summer sunshine , showered and dressed and then drove off in her dilapidated jeep which was packed to the gunwales with everything she might possibly need for the day ahead . |
| 15 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 16 | The last few months alone have seen us tripping over stranger and stranger Techno records born of computer game consoles and febrile imaginations , wave after seemingly inexhaustible wave of new rap , the grimy grungy hordes of post-Nirvana American noiseniks and the endless fireworks let off by our homegrown rock scene . |
| 17 | But I can and said pull that fucking door closed and the knob came off in her fucking hand , she spun round |
| 18 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 19 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 20 | The dinner , the talk , the songs , the enviable lovingness of George and Catherine would be a memory , happy , but cut off from her own life as clearly as the fell top was separated from the lake . |
| 21 | Such was the frail nature of the Belorussian working class , cut off from its metropolitan Russian brothers by a broad sea of peasants . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 23 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Short was similarly written off before his semi-final match against former world champion Anatoly Karpov but his combative approach produced a stunning victory . |
| 25 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 26 | At a pinch , use newsprint : but it will not help you to design a fancy project , nor will it help if the print rubs off onto your light coloured nylon when the ‘ plan ’ is used as a cutting pattern . |
| 27 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 28 | Gary Moore , a born again bluesman who certainly needs no introduction from us , had broken off from his European tour especially to take part in the event . |
| 29 | So it 's often sheer neglect on the part of the home owner that allows the thief to gain entry , and make off with your treasured possessions . |
| 30 | So , equipped with a newly-restored 1942 300 hp Stearman ( the Cannibal Queen of the title ) former A-6 Intruder pilot Coonts launches off with his teenage son aboard to set wheel in all 48 contiguous states , stopping en route to visit family , ex-wife , old squadron buddies , national monuments , places of pilgrimage ( like Kill Devil Hills , from which the Wrights first flew ) , aviation museums , and pausing awhile en route to give rides in the big yellow biplane to anyone who asks , and to philosophise on racial equality , politics , religion , women the FAA , Disneyworld … |