Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 2 | The other alternative is just to go off in that corner over there . |
| 3 | Well — the man is old and can no longer show off in such an aria as that in Act II — ‘ Fuor del mar ho un mar nel seno ’ . |
| 4 | Suddenly , somewhere off to the rear , came an yell of alarm and the roar of a shotgun going off , followed by three more blasting off in quick succession . |
| 5 | NICK FALDO and Severiano Ballesteros both signed off in good heart from the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn yesterday , each having final rounds of 69 to ensure top 10 finishes as they head for Augusta and the Masters . |
| 6 | Well we went every day on about the mail so it was a passenger service that really started off in nineteen fifty five but we bought maybe in nineteen fifty three or fifty four . |
| 7 | Flight-weight maybe , but they never really took off in British homes . |
| 8 | There are simple spinelets scattered over the dorsal surface of the disk although they are often rubbed off in preserved specimens . |
| 9 | THE career of David Loder , who started off last season with just two winners , has really taken off in 1993 and the Newmarket trainer looks set to reach his half-century this month . |
| 10 | But it 's never really taken off in this country ! |
| 11 | CHARLES and Diana arrived in Greece for a make-or-break ‘ secret ’ holiday last night — and immediately zoomed off in separate speedboats . |
| 12 | These doubts , hard to pin down , because reason easily disposed of them all , crystallised around the fact that Comrade Andrew too often smelled of drink ; she could not bring herself to criticise him for his partiality to the goose-girl , because she had learned so long ago and so thoroughly simply to switch off in this area . |
| 13 | The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded . |
| 14 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 15 | Is there any way the gun could then go off in that ? |
| 16 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 17 | Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time . |
| 18 | Every time his plane touched down at Nice airport and he saw palm trees and tanned porters in white , short-sleeved shirts , Adam enjoyed afresh the glamour of a life where one stepped on to a plane in bleak winter weather and shortly afterwards stepped off in warm sunshine . |