Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tearing off her single garment , she stood naked before them , proud little breasts pointing upwards as if to offer the cherries of her nipples to the Papua moon . |
| 2 | Office worker Bryan Johnson managed to knock Mr Chittenden to the floor , tearing off his own shirt to smother the flames . |
| 3 | After knocking off her old man , Jessamyn rose through the ranks in the Psychopomps , and racked up quite a score . |
| 4 | Drastic alterations might be made to eligibility criteria , assessments either not carried out or not acted upon , and the sight of all those solicitors that the SSI is so worried about sharpening their quills and dusting off their judicial review procedures . |
| 5 | There is a tacit assumption that , after rounding off their formal education with a cookery or arts course , daughters will join their well-bred friends on the marriage market . |
| 6 | Not only that but Carter USM are rounding off their American tour at the Academy with support from Thousand Yard Stare — and Boston 's 360s , who are joined onstage by a desperate Inger Lorre , formerly of the Nymphs , who flaunts her way embarrassingly through three songs and rants occasionally about women-power . |
| 7 | Traffic was heavy and drivers bad tempered so the white van was forced to jockey for position , the swarthy man stamping on brake or accelerator and his passenger bouncing off her precarious seat . |
| 8 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 9 | Many bizarre proposals have been put forward to save the tower in recent years , including flying a huge helium balloon from its top , securing it with a giant safety pin , and lopping off its uppermost floor , which is a later addition . |
| 10 | Mount Laurel , New Jersey , Bluestone Consulting Inc will be show ing off its new Motif graphical user interface builder , UIM/X Professional 2.0 . |
| 11 | Pulling off her bright headscarf , tossing off her jacket , she threw off apologies at the same time . |
| 12 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 13 | Sherif must accept the price he is offered if the five families are to have any hope of paying off their lengthening tab at the provisioner 's and if — haha , a'haha — they want their thin children to live to grow thinner ! |
| 14 | She gave a great gasp of anguished amazement at the sight of the drowned rat of a boy standing before her , the rain pouring off his sodden hair to run in rivulets down his pale face . |
| 15 | Imagine , senior management finally getting off its collective backside and finding out , at first hand , what the front line has to grapple with . |
| 16 | Yours free just for sending off your Free Trial Card — this high quality oven mitt . |
| 17 | The LP shows the Midland Ramones desperately trying to widen their scope , moving off their narrow base and even slowing things down a little on occasion . |
| 18 | MOSCOW — Azerbaijan is showing no sign of bowing to Moscow and calling off its month-old rail blockade of Armenia , despite a Supreme Soviet decree empowering the government to send in troops to get trains moving , writes Rupert Cornwell . |
| 19 | The Arab world was alarmed at the implications of the new Cabinet for the peace process , formed as it was at a time when the USA was considering breaking off its 16-month dialogue with the PLO , following the abortive raid on the Israeli coast on May 30 [ see this page for breaking off of dialogue on June 20 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ If , ’ he says , ‘ the city council grants full planning permission for The Galleries in the next few weeks , it will not simply be shooting itself in the foot but blowing off its entire leg . ’ |
| 21 | Mike Hall does not excite superlatives , but he is a good , accurate tackler and , they reckon in Cardiff , not without a measure of penetration when coming off his left foot . |
| 22 | Colour swam under her skin , and she moved further into the room and closed the door , feeling as she did so that she was cutting off her last line of retreat . |
| 23 | Because Miguel , in the same incident , has been bitten but not seriously injured , Sarah tries to save him by cutting off his infected arm with a machete — an effect that failed to work with the first model , until an assistant of Savini 's used a spare rubber arm with the cut prefilled with wax . |
| 24 | She pushed her mistake to the back of her mind — and then found that , although the question was on her list , that she was asking off her own bat , and with no thought to that list , ‘ Are you married ? ’ |
| 25 | Proud creatures with the rain dripping off their straggling hair , their bare , muddy shoulders . |
| 26 | I had by now recovered my scattered senses and after finishing off my enjoyable meal of pie and peas and my second pint , I thanked my kind new-found friends and left the hospitable Railway bar to walk back down to where my trusty old Morris Minor was parked . |
| 27 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
| 28 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 29 | Father Devlin boomed , taking off his tall silk hat as he strode into the wide , big , lamp-lit kitchen of the O'Malley farmhouse . |
| 30 | The sooner I can get the air-conditioning on , the better , ’ he said , taking off his own jacket before going over to inspect the rather antiquated unit , set in the lower frame of one of the windows . |