Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving off to greener pastures |
| 2 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 3 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 4 | Even darting off to foreign places can be a waste of time , so he delegates this to his deputies . |
| 5 | Fifty yards off the fox ran into some hares and they went careering off in all directions , one of them dashing up a heather slope to cause an explosion of grouse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 8 | Most brides prefer the over-all tan provided by the sunbed and this is particularly good if the couple are nipping off to sunny climes for their reception . |
| 9 | He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained . |
| 10 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 11 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 12 | Well it 's , I mean it 's letting them know what 's going off at other prisons . |
| 13 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
| 14 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 15 | ‘ We want a plan formulated jointly by government , industry , research establishments and the academic community , which will prevent us all going off in different directions ’ , says , professor of aeronautics at the Cranfield Institute of Technology and chairman of the committee . |
| 16 | A long corridor ran down the length of the building with doors leading off on both sides . |
| 17 | It could be measured by the width of a coach with a man walking at each side , but even so it was wider than the streets and alleys leading off from both sides of it . |
| 18 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 19 | These are major problems in identifying , and separating off from other policies , a specific area called ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 20 | I was mostly bored by the degree course I was doing and spent more and more of my time skiving off to extra-mural classes in Women 's Studies , which were just beginning to happen , and devouring feminist books . |
| 21 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 22 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |
| 23 | The economic seesaw has hit the ground with a bone-juddering thud yet again — jobs are flying off in all directions as redundancies explode , industries contract and small businesses collapse . |
| 24 | So if they 're play paid by their employer , for , you know , six months full salary , they 're not gon na want one of these , kicking off after four weeks , are they . |
| 25 | The rate of flow of gas blowing off through these vents is often surprisingly fast . |
| 26 | It 's where you got the er the branch chains coming off of different positions . |
| 27 | Mariana hatched the drop to the river to their right and dragged a furrow through it round the side of the meadow and on up the mountain with a branch cutting off at right angles to run along the top of the quarry . |
| 28 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 29 | The passage was narrower here , tapering off into three turnings . |
| 30 | The Open in those days was one round Wednesday , one round Thursday and then finishing off with two rounds — Friday . |