Example sentences of "[verb] off at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breathlessly , Jenny poured out the news that the rear offside wheel of Miss Clinton 's car was loose , likely to come off at any moment , sooner or later certain to come off . |
| 2 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 3 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 4 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 5 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 6 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 7 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 8 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 9 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 10 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 11 | It came off at one stage . |
| 12 | Twice I came off at that spot . |
| 13 | Flu victims Steve Gaughan , who was absent from Tuesday 's disastrous defeat by Reading , and Garry Hinchley , who played but came off at half time , are slowly recovering , and should be ready for consideration . |
| 14 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 15 | The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation . |
| 16 | it does n't , it does n't matter what barrelage you put through it but put , as long as we know that er , the fifteen thou it 's gon na be written off at thirty pound a barrel , so the sooner you , you do it , the sooner it 's written off . |
| 17 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 18 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 19 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 20 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 21 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 22 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 23 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 24 | The fun kicks off at 12 noon tomorrow on St Mary 's playing fields , Little Crosby . |
| 25 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 26 | Blagg is n't the type to go off at half cock — |
| 27 | What a way to spend the morning , hammering away at the base of a bomb that is likely to go off at any moment . |
| 28 | Yet again , a piece of the family silver is being sold off at rock-bottom price , at great — |
| 29 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 30 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |