Example sentences of "[be] off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony 's back now so we 're off for some gnocchi . |
| 2 | Now we 're off along some alleys , cutting west till we reach the railway viaduct . |
| 3 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 4 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 5 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 6 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 7 | He gets married next month and one of his first tasks yesterday was to inform his wife-to-be that four days after they return from their honeymoon he 'll be off for two months on a 13-game tour . |
| 8 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 9 | Now how many of those , do you think , will still be off after six months . |
| 10 | I 'll be off in ten minutes . ’ |
| 11 | Fortunately the pair were off to different events when they stepped out in the identical £420 jackets . |
| 12 | In fact they were off for most trials . |
| 13 | Still be off after six months . |
| 14 | Skinner , who ticked me off yesterday for suggesting his vote had fallen , is off after 14 years , leaving my colleagues on the Sun distraught and casting around for a new NEC contact . |
| 15 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 16 | Yes but the , the general ones we 've got in those flip you know when I was off , when I had my cartilage removed in my knee , well I was off for six weeks so I got all the photographs and put them in order , the children and us , you know ? |
| 17 | A horse who has had his problems , Royal Athlete was off for two seasons , but in 1990 he won over the Mildmay fences at Liverpool after having fallen when backed favourite at Cheltenham . |
| 18 | One of his main rivals is Royal Athlete who was off for two seasons before returning this term and running a tremendous race when third in the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 19 | He was off for ten weeks . |