Example sentences of "[v-ing] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 2 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 3 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 4 | Whipping off in the Doc 's DeLorean time machine to find 2015 in Hill Valley , California , a purgatorial version of its former self , with the old labouring under hormonal treatment that has fuddled their brains while rejuvenating their bodies and the young equipped with weapons of world-destruction , Marty McFly returns to discover the mid-Eighties in even worse disarray . |
| 5 | ‘ You poor thing , ’ said Moynihan , promptly jogging off in the direction of Hove . |
| 6 | I thought it a bit extreme to take the unit off as I 've found a much simpler way of stopping this problem of the springs sounding off in the back . |
| 7 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 8 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 9 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 10 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 11 | In his wake trailed the baptist preacher , his words of comfort drifting off in the wind . |
| 12 | However , he can start by moving off in the direction of the local vector itself , and in this case parallel transport is well defined . |
| 13 | Given the general distrust of authority amongst the user population and the problems encountered in obtaining treatment and successfully coming off in the community , there is obviously a need for a service which is seen by users to be impartial . |
| 14 | Performance has to be exciting enough to make the boat attractive , but it has to be something that lighter and less experienced crews starting off in the class can handle . |
| 15 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 16 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 17 | These reforms were ultimately to cause the falling off in the composition of orchestrally accompanied church music as such accompaniments would only be required for special feast days and there would be no place for it in everyday circumstances . |
| 18 | Argyle and Henderson ( 1985 ) , reviewing evidence about contact between siblings , suggest that this follows a U-shape , being high in childhood and teenage years , falling off in the middle of adult life , and then picking up again as the siblings move into old age . |
| 19 | Admission to a partnership is no longer looked upon so frequently as in the past as a job for life either by the individual solicitor whose loyalty to the firm may well be strained by the availability elsewhere of fresh challenges for greater rewards or by the firm which will be reluctant to tolerate any falling off in the performance of its partners which may affect overall profit levels . |
| 20 | We banged off the last roll of film recording our epic journey of discovery before setting off in the direction of Charles de Gaulle Airport . |
| 21 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 22 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |