Example sentences of "run off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These can either run off the public-telephone network , or off the smaller PABXs that control businesses ' own in-house telephone systems . |
| 2 | When satisfied , look along the whole length and ensure that the wood grain does not run off the true length . |
| 3 | Can it run off the disks ? |
| 4 | Iris and Nils continued taking turns at the galley stove with the inevitable result that the dynamo that would run off the free-turning prop when we were sailing arrived by air from the States before the alterations to the drive shaft were complete . |
| 5 | The fear , the fear when when voyages of exploration were going out right up to the renaissance , was that the boats would actually run off the end of the earth , and fall into a void . |
| 6 | It was delivered from Ford on a transporter to in Daybrook , run off the transporter , they did the P D I , she went to collect her brand new car and got as far as Kwik-Save in Sherwood . |
| 7 | We bought an engine in Edinburgh , a gas engine , run off the town 's gas to drive the machinery we had . |
| 8 | Mohammed Azharuddin was slightly hurt when struck on the elbow by a stone while fielding , prompting the visiting team to run off the field through a hail of rocks and oranges . |
| 9 | ‘ We would have converted it to run off the engine , but the trouble is that if the engine broke down , you would n't be able to get the bonnet up to look at it ! ’ |
| 10 | If I did marry Parr , and had two little children and made a lovely home , I 'd be allowed to run off the rails a bit , so long I was discreet . |
| 11 | The former chairman , Sir Phil Harris , soon sold his shares and it was not long before the new company was running off the rails . |
| 12 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 13 | The subtleties of the contest — running off the ball , watching an individual contest between two players rather than following the ball around through the camera lens — may be sacrificed but these failings have not deterred the audience . |
| 14 | The beaches may also receive nutrients running off the land , especially near estuaries or sewage outfalls . |
| 15 | The sign pointed down a small lane running off the main road . |
| 16 | To show how fantastic he was driving , he only missed one fairway out of the 72 holes , despite the strange bounces and the danger of the ball running off the straight and narrow all the time . |
| 17 | As each layer of weathered rock , or soil , has formed it has been washed away , or eroded , by the rain water running off the surface in streams and rivers . |
| 18 | The Chesapeake 's 5 million hectares of shoreline marshes buffer the eroding influence of waves and act as sediment screening sieves for water running off the shore . |
| 19 | If I 'm recording on eight-track I very rarely record the drums — I just have them running off the C-Lab system onto a couple of channels , and record voice , guitars and bass on the eight-track . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't quite the case of an interview running off the rails , or the legendary cowboy — ( me , not him ) — galloping off in al directions . |
| 21 | Bath have as many people running off the ball , as many ball-handling forwards , as many backs capable of giving a looped miss-pass as anyone at any level . |
| 22 | The one author whom everyone remembered best was George Bernard Shaw , popular editions of whose plays were running off the presses in the early years of the century . |
| 23 | On the map this Heath presents an absolutely typical picture of a planned landscape : dead straight by-roads , almost empty spaces between the villages , solitary farmsteads sparingly dotted about and reached by occupation roads running off the public roads , a vast landscape utterly bare of woodland except for neat little fox covers , square or rectangular patches of green for the most part . |
| 24 | The worst atrocities took place in the corridors running off the hall where he had been horrified to see " a man lying on the floor , obviously powerless and done for , being mercilessly kicked and horribly handled by a group of Blackshirts " . |
| 25 | Water running off the maize fields is contaminated with dieldrin , then drunk by cattle . |
| 26 | " Blind Jack " Metcalfe ( 1717 – 1810 ) emphasised the importance of a firm foundation under a smooth convex surface , running off the water into side ditches below road level . |
| 27 | But it was the precipitation running off the wings through a gap in the frieze ailerons that we had on the Wapiti aircraft at that time , that had soaked me . |
| 28 | I think in relation to the fact that we were talk , that the earliest earlier thinkers about the water running off the earth . |
| 29 | It 's all running off the same gas . |
| 30 | What they also need is a good half-hour run off the lead , daily , in a safe place , to maintain a well-balanced mind . |