Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 2 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |
| 3 | He crouched like a skier and took off , shooting down the ice field and zooming off into space , turning leisurely somersaults in the great fall , bouncing off rocks like a dummy in an adventure film . |
| 4 | An adder had been seen ; it slowly wound its way along the track before sensing intruders and slithering off into cover . |
| 5 | Part of s.16 was abolished by the Theft Act 1978 , which created three offences : obtaining services by deception ( s.1 ) , evading liability by deception ( s.2 ) , and making off without payment ( s.3 ) . |
| 6 | McEvoy , of The Vale , Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , admitted six offences of burglary , obtaining by deception , attempting to obtain by deception , taking a car without consent and making off without payment . |
| 7 | Woods , 19 , of Bramall Lane , Darlington , admitted two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm , reckless driving , and additional charges of burglary , theft and making off without payment . |
| 8 | Robert Lowther was sentenced to six years , with a further year for possessing five petrol bombs with intent , taking a car without consent and making off without payment , offences unconnected with the burglary . |
| 9 | It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad 's room . |
| 10 | The transition matrices used were trigram matrices , based on the Marshall formula ( equation 3.3 ) and backing off to bigram information ( equation 1.3 ) when no trigram information was available . |