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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The raiders made off in a car which had been reported stolen earlier . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Unfortunately my original Precision got ripped off in a place called Redondo Beach . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | NYUP ! goes off in a couple of hundred limey brains — and are ignored . |
| 20 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It 's not the sort of thing you can dash off in a couple of months . |
| 23 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | JOIN our prize trail and drive off in a brand new SEAT Ibiza 1.2 SLXi ! |
| 26 | As the law stands , it is possible for a teenager to pass a driving test on his 17th birthday — and drive off in a 150mph Ford Sierra or a Mercedes sports . |
| 27 | These are n't things you get off in a hurry , so I try and remain calm , although suddenly I 'm pretty certain I 've got one on my chest . |
| 28 | Just after nine we set off in a taxi and dropped Rozanov off outside his embassy in Kensington Gardens . |
| 29 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 30 | TWO boozy pals were caught by astonished police after they set off in a car — with BOTH of them driving . |