Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 2 | It is a smart little tag , conjuring up images of Monie bootling off to the library . |
| 3 | In his wake trailed the baptist preacher , his words of comfort drifting off in the wind . |
| 4 | Drago tore tortured notes from the lamentarion , Tumblejack pranced and roared , Flittern made his instrument groan and thunder , while Malengin was a blur behind the drums , chips of bone flying off his skin-hammers . |
| 5 | The fish and fruit diet sustained them well , though a doctor diagnosed Mr Glennie , who lost 22lb , as being malnourished , and he showed reporters folds of skin hanging off his buttocks . |
| 6 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 7 | A HUGE REWARD £10,000 is offered by HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING to any person helping to capture any of the NOTORIOUS BANDS of SMUGGLERS trafficking off our Coasts So heinous are their crimes , so urgent the necessity of checking their activities that ALL ARE INVITED |
| 8 | But among recollections of getting stuck on chamber pots and jokes about wives running off with police patrol men was an insight from Sir Roger Elliott of the BA director 's office arrangement — wonderful were it true : Tim Godfray has two in-trays in his office , one labelled ‘ In ’ and the other ‘ Deep In ’ . |
| 9 | He told some gory stories of eagles carrying off dogs and lambs , of their being shot and maimed . |
| 10 | ’ We will be building cables with ducts leading off to every house , which can easily be connected if they want the service . ’ |
| 11 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 12 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 13 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 14 | Bits of wings falling off . |
| 15 | DOZENS of French farmers staged an anti-British protest at Calais at the weekend , throwing stones and hurling insults at Britons coming off ferries . |