Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats . |
| 3 | '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some . |
| 4 | Maybe she 'd win the pools or walk off with first prize in the national lottery ! |
| 5 | You can use these troops to close any gaps that appear in your line or face off against any flank attacks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |
| 8 | Knitters who have not practised the partial shaping may be casting off one stitch at a time as they were first taught to do or casting off in this way to retain a firm shoulder seam . |
| 9 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 10 | Little cottages line lanes that jut off from each other as though they too were trying to hide away . |
| 11 | Pandarus ' prose not only proves that he does n't take Troilus seriously , so turning our reaction towards a scepticism that stands off from full involvement , but in time it establishes the speaker as a matter-of-fact fixer , who is not only alien to romance but coarsens whatever he touches . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh no , it was a miracle that came off at all . ’ |
| 13 | How come the V&A 's lift signs are still made of black chipboard with white plastic letters that drop off at regular intervals ? |
| 14 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 15 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 16 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 17 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 18 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 19 | They broke into the house in Scotto Crescent through the patio doors and made off with several ornaments . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 22 | The first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre took place in June and passed off without any major incidents . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |
| 26 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 27 | As far away from bleeping techno ambience as they are from indie grunge guitars , their debut EP , ‘ This Is Freaky Realistic ’ , strides boldly across four decades ( from Dylan to Da Lench Mob ) , musical genres ( funk , rock , folk , hip-hop and pop ) , and heads off into some hitherto uncharted dimension . |
| 28 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 29 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 30 | 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 . |