Example sentences of "[verb] off in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 2 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 3 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 4 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 5 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 6 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 7 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 8 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 9 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 10 | As pressure for land grows , more and more of Sri Lanka 's surviving elephants find themselves cut off in small patches of forest surrounded by agriculture . |
| 11 | Eliza was under no illusions that this meant they would be spending more time together : ‘ John , of course , will not remain there long , ’ she told her mother , ‘ but be wandering off in some direction … ’ . |
| 12 | Murray and McKean were written off in many quarters after the disappointment of Barcelona — Murray finished eighth after starting favourite , McKean failed to reach the final — and the pair went to Toronto with their careers at the crossroads . |
| 13 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 14 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 15 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 16 | The gunmen made off in this VW Polo . |
| 17 | The gunmen made off in this VW Polo . |
| 18 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 19 | The plot flies off in all directions . |
| 20 | Tuppe limped off in hot pursuit . |
| 21 | We had to move around without stepping off in alphabetical order . |
| 22 | CHARLES and Diana arrived in Greece for a make-or-break ‘ secret ’ holiday last night — and immediately zoomed off in separate speedboats . |
| 23 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 24 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 25 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 26 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 27 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 28 | They tended , however , to go off in different directions . |
| 29 | In spite of what one reads and hears , we can take that as being a pretty definitive er word on , on the fact that we 're not being conned or ripped off in any way at all . |
| 30 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |