Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , er what to think , oh I ca n't think of any words , oh we 're going to go off for an interview now anyway . |
| 2 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |
| 3 | now we 're going to finish off with a sport that enjoys itself in the summer … grass track racing … thousands were out over the weekend to watch the midland finals in Worcestershire |
| 4 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 5 | If you 're planning to take off to the Far East or Australia , travel First or Golden Club Class with us and we will give you the chance to land yourself a fabulous Jaguar XJ6 in our exclusive passenger competition . |
| 6 | Consequently , I am going to start off by outlining some of the philosophical beliefs about the nature of mind which underpin contemporary research in the cognitive sciences , including cognitive neuropsychology . |
| 7 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 8 | ‘ Men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street . |
| 9 | RESTRUCTURING AND RETRENCHMENT ARE beginning to pay off for ICI Fertilizers . |
| 10 | You see , some of your ideas are beginning to rub off on me , and I want to start keeping better records here , as well has have regular weekly clinics instead of just coming up here on a casual basis . ’ |
| 11 | Either way you are bound to drift off into unconnected chains of thought , which does n't matter a bit . |
| 12 | It was not clear whether the two latest bombs had been set to go off on Friday , like one discovered and defused on Sunday , or whether they were freshly planted . |
| 13 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 14 | The tactics of the supermarkets are starting to rub off on newsagents . ’ |
| 15 | I remember that we were quite concerned that we might be expected to take off from ‘ Argus ’ as even the resident Swordfish seemed to have difficulty . |
| 16 | Investors there would nevertheless be permitted to write off against tax 50 per cent of costs entailed in a one-year period , while employees there would have their tax allowances increased , and companies would not have to pay the same local property and capital taxes as in western Germany . |
| 17 | In addition , they can be made to break off under a large side load and in so doing , perhaps prevent further damage being done to the fuselage . |
| 18 | The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either . |
| 19 | I say to him [ husband ] I 'm going to clear off for the day and you can do it all one day , and you 'll see what it 's like . |
| 20 | I 'm going to start off by suggesting why people like yourselves ought to be much more pro-active , take a much more lead in terms of doing things with the media . |
| 21 | The work was not easy — manufacturers , for example , sometimes had to be asked to ease off on an item of plant in a fairly advanced state of completion ( but for which the site was not yet prepared or the boiler installation delayed ) to press on with others at an earlier stage of manufacture which could be installed earlier . |
| 22 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 23 | This is a free country and people are allowed to sound off about the fur trade , about vivisection , about experimenting with live animals . |
| 24 | As I am preparing to set off from Oxford a copy of a fax arrives from the production office . |
| 25 | He had spent the morning painting picturesque views and quaint scenes for his master , and had been allowed to knock off for a smoke . |
| 26 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 27 | Lawyers acting for Ferranti concede that there is no chance of getting back the full £215m which the company is being forced to write off as a result of the International Signal and Control fraud . |
| 28 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 29 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 30 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |