Example sentences of "[verb] off in the [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 East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 6 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 7 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Watch that brickwork dry off in the sun , it 'll be as pale as the arch , here , in ten minutes . |
| 11 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 17 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 21 | Wash your cans up erm and er and then they 'd go and finish off in the corn fields . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 24 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 25 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 26 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 27 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |
| 28 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |
| 29 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 30 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |