Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can talk about the nature of art — blah , blah , blah — and I did do some dribbling off into text and stuff , but now I know that movement says more to me than any of this other tosh . |
| 2 | If one is a woman one is often surprised by a sudden splitting off of consciousness , say in walking down Whitehall , when from being the natural inheritor of that civilisation , she becomes , on the contrary , outside of it , alien and critical . |
| 3 | But this time it was different , they were all going off for Christmas as soon as their kid arrived . |
| 4 | The danger is of a breakdown , in the disorientation of excess of information , the compass needle going wild as multiple pulls drag it hither and thither , and then a self-defensive shutting off of information and lapse into irrationalism . |
| 5 | There had been , he explained in answer to questions , a great falling off in traffic . |
| 6 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 7 | Lee Turnbull got the header … the United defence a severe ticking off from manager Greg Downs … |
| 8 | The economy will move directly from point A to point C without first stopping off at point B : no quantity response ensues from the monetary impulse . |
| 9 | This , together with depot refurbishment and tighter controls , will enable the group to deal with any falling off in demand , according to Sir Matthew . |