Example sentences of "[noun sg] off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You get the youngsters that hare off down the road . |
| 2 | The officers took the tot off to the station , gave her breakfast and put out the radio appeal . |
| 3 | ‘ On a 500 you 're really only washing a bit of speed off with the front . |
| 4 | Her friends pushed the boat off down the river and ran across the fields to get round to the bridge . |
| 5 | Instead , a bit of string was used to secure the bridle strap and Fred galloped the horse off to the start . |
| 6 | If you 're worried about electricity bills , turn the monitor off at the end of the day . |
| 7 | Well I 've turned the one in the bedroom off for the moment cos if in the daytime if your mum 's up re resting |
| 8 | So the spin off on the electorate is perhaps well , does it really matter ? |
| 9 | There is another spin off for the estate agent of course |
| 10 | I ca n't think of the name of the other German beer but the roll-on roll-off 'll be out in the dock , cos we had a roll-on roll- off in the dock at all |
| 11 | The golfclub head , large crop , strong breast muscles create these and they taper off to the tail with a harmonious unity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Walkman , alarm clock , my winter pyjamas ( too hot , I 'd thrown the duvet off in the middle of the night ) , my wash-'n'-make-up bag , and necessities . |
| 14 | I asked her to slack off on the ginger a bit |
| 15 | In light of the prohibitive estimates received for the fencing off of the play area and the laying of rubber slabs around the sand pit the nursery staff have decided to go ahead with their own restricted plans . |
| 16 | The most informal interview will be one where the interviewer , having once started the interview off on the theme in which he is interested , allows the informant to dictate the subsequent situation . |
| 17 | On this hypothesis one would expect the eastern spit , Sandbanks peninsula in the case of Poole Harbour , to be in a state of decay due to the cutting off of the supply of material by the breach . |
| 18 | On Thursday 3 October , a bomb caused a large crater in London Road , Thornton Heath , between Dunheved Road North and Dunheved Road South , cutting the depôt off from the rest of the Croydon system . |
| 19 | He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted … |
| 20 | You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other . |
| 21 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 22 | It passes through villages that become increasingly small and simple as you get deeper into the high hills : through Banca , in the eighteenth century a centre of the local copper-mining industry , then Aldudes itself , which has a very nice small square and a Basque-style church , and finally Urepel , reached by a turning off to the left from the road that continues into Spain . |
| 23 | Once I passed a motor-cycle cop , sheltering a concealed turning off to the left . |
| 24 | She spoke quietly in Greek to the boy , soothing his annoyance at the turning off of the video . |
| 25 | The next time you need to backup the directory you copy it into \WORK\WORK\WORK and so on until you feel that it is time to start the backup off from the start again . |
| 26 | On Thursday , her half-day off from the shop , as Rachaela was sitting in her chair listening to Tchaikovsky ballet music , the door sounded . |
| 27 | As you near the gap branch off to the top of Green Gable ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 28 | A careful dusting off of the electronics , and a pull off and push back for every ribbon and power connector , restored reliable operation . |
| 29 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 30 | I got ta finish the kitchen off with the Polyripple . |