Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A careful dusting off of the electronics , and a pull off and push back for every ribbon and power connector , restored reliable operation . |
| 2 | And I packed that old witch off to the village . |
| 3 | The yard was full of movement : of boys leading the incoming horses off to the stables , and bringing fresh ones . |
| 4 | They were , however , segregated in a separate compartment off to the right and screened by a heavy grille , through which , nevertheless , some of the women contrived to allow themselves to be seen . |
| 5 | We only probably have to take seven standard colours off in the end . |
| 6 | The trouble is that he ca n't recreate the formula , so he is pretty teed off by the time his fund manager Dr Crane ( Lorraine Bracco ) turns up to find out what 's going on . |
| 7 | They represent a viable spin off from the THORP project control and instrumentation activities . ’ |
| 8 | It 's no good to them , this land if sold in the on this particular piece of land , they 've sold all the viable access off to the residents of the have n't they ? so there , there 's no right of way really for them to get down there , and it should be cheap . |
| 9 | Most people imagine that the Inquisition terrorised the population , swooping like the Gestapo on wide-eyed villagers , dragging old women with black cats off to the nearest duck-pond to be drowned as witches . |
| 10 | Rumours have been circulating that they wanted to hold it to tie in with Aliens 3 , although with that still way off in the future , it 's more likely that a full-scale theatrical release of The Special Edition is planned for the distant future . |
| 11 | A long way off down the hill smoke drifted up from the first stubble-burning of the autumn . |
| 12 | Staff may be allocated time off at the most popular times or , conversely , allowed to work when financial rewards are increased . |
| 13 | He needs a holiday — you both do — and I saw this as a way to ensure that you could get regular time off in the future . ’ |
| 14 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 15 | In what follows the exposition will focus not upon the general nature of rational expectations equilibria , but on the relation between the criteria for rationality on the one hand and the debate on the unemployment-inflation trade off on the other , with the ultimate aim of arriving at the policy inefficacy proposition . |
| 16 | The ragged mountains off in the distance were dark and mysterious , the equally ragged coastline full of secrets . |
| 17 | Then Satan scented water off to the left and swung in that direction . |
| 18 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 19 | Here the ground was laid to vegetables on one side with a small orchard off to the left . |
| 20 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
| 21 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 22 | Now she saw him , standing on the pavement outside the church , holding his thumb out to her and grinning beseechingly as though he were some hopeful teenager off on the hippy trail . |
| 23 | A confrontation between two of the game 's biggest hitters is assured when Ian Woosnam pipped in a play-off for the Honda Open sets off in the company of the awesome former US PGA champion John Daly and another top performer , Payne Stewart . |
| 24 | We can not expect pupils to learn the sophistication necessary for handling difficult concepts if we constantly draw a veil over them and shut pupils off from the real debate . |
| 25 | It 's a fair way off to the ice-cream cart so when Kenny comes back he 's got ice-cream cones melting all down his arms . |
| 26 | Then the machine bombards the molecule with a beam of fast atoms , which knocks a stream of charged ions off from the molecule . |
| 27 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 28 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 29 | Once I passed a motor-cycle cop , sheltering a concealed turning off to the left . |
| 30 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |