Example sentences of "[noun pl] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 2 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 3 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 4 | You can have three choirs singing their heads off in the separate sections without any of them disturbing the other . |
| 5 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 6 | The eastern bank between Chepstow and Monmouth gets Offa 's Dyke walkers off to a flying start — there 's superb walking high above the river with sensational views . |
| 7 | We will discover whether there is a real commitment or whether it is simply words which they hope that the Scottish public will forget were ever uttered so that in the fullness of time they can shunt the companies off to the private sector to do with them as it will . |
| 8 | The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source . |
| 9 | McFarland and Adams got the visitors off to a good start putting on 35 for the first wicket . |
| 10 | And they could see for the first time the lights of settlements off in the dark distance of the Vale . |
| 11 | Another letter in The Times , from Sir Robert Robinson , drew attention to Florey 's work and set enquirers off on a new tack to Oxford , but their journeys turned out to be unrewarding . |
| 12 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 13 | The pole jerks the hunters off in the right direction rather like a heavyweight human-diviner . |
| 14 | Hats off to the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital for introducing a new scheme which means no parents will have to take their new baby home from the maternity unit without a proper infant carrier . |
| 15 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 16 | The tournament gets the club 's 40th anniversary celebrations off to a flying start and , with the season just a week away , represents the last chance for the clubs to test their form . |
| 17 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 18 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 19 | And then we 've got the young cattle off to the two places on the other side of the island and then the third place at just last year . |
| 20 | As well as Hitchcock and Flynn , Mark Gill weighed in with two and Tim McCann rounded things off with a glorious strike minutes from the end . |
| 21 | No one else scored very many but no one needed to , and there were still six wickets and fourteen overs in hand when King finished things off with a six . |
| 22 | And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men … |
| 23 | And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men … |
| 24 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 25 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 26 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 27 | It would get things off to a good start . |
| 28 | I thought it would get things off to a good start . ’ |
| 29 | Halfway through his talk , the meeting was suddenly interrupted by a cadre of men dressed as prison guards ; these rather realistic toughs burst into the room , grabbed everybody there , and took them out to a set of waiting helicopters , which flew the bewildered executives off to a second meeting site . |
| 30 | Some of our competitors in the north have been er really struggling and erm offering four pounds off on a seven pound fifty entrance fee so bearing that in mind we 're v v very confident that we 've im improved our market share in that area too . |