Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 2 | When the dip of the beds is fairly steep towards the sea , there is a tendency for blocks of rock to break off at the joint planes , usually at right angles to the bedding , so that the cliff profile tends to be dominated by the dip of the beds . |
| 3 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 4 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 5 | The tour kicks off at the Arches Theatre , Glasgow on May 10 . |
| 6 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 7 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
| 8 | ’ His voice faltered off at the frightened look on Maeve 's face . |
| 9 | She had been strangled and her long fair hair shorn off at the scalp . |
| 10 | There was a healthy balance for nineteen ninety three and this was mainly due to members supporting raffles and the fact that we have not put the show stand off at the British Aquarist Festival for a couple of years . |
| 11 | Now Faldo and his European colleagues can only wait and see if the hard work and application pays off at the weekend . |
| 12 | A TEENAGER had his arm ripped off at the shoulder by a cement mixer yesterday . |
| 13 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |