Example sentences of "[verb] off in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 2 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 3 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 4 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 5 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 6 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 7 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 8 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 9 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 10 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 11 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 12 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 13 | Watch that brickwork dry off in the sun , it 'll be as pale as the arch , here , in ten minutes . |
| 14 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 15 | it does n't fall off in the soup , it never falls off , it 's only the ones you see on the advertisements that fall off . |
| 16 | Everyone had a potential for narcissism because the baby starts off in a world of its own , in a state of primary narcissism . |
| 17 | It 's a weird thing erm it starts off in the root and then it erm u used a single mouse fix to patch it |
| 18 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 19 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 20 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 21 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 22 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 23 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 24 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 25 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 26 | Wash your cans up erm and er and then they 'd go and finish off in the corn fields . |
| 27 | Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back . |
| 28 | The Blades lost talented youngster Dane Whitehouse — stretchered off in the first-half — and then Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Alan Kelly was led from the field with a face wound . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |