Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mate thought he saw something or someone fall off the bridge . ’ |
| 2 | The driver calls ‘ Loving ’ and I get off the bus … ’ |
| 3 | My legs buckle and I fall off the catwalk shouting , ‘ Stop it ! |
| 4 | My home club is Coombe Hill in Kingston , Surrey , and I play off a handicap of 17 . |
| 5 | And there was a funny silence and Dylan said that he 'd bet I could n't do that scream like that with a cigarette in my mouth and I shook off the centuries , stopped staring , smiled a little , noted that he had indeed monumentally screamed with a cigarette in his mouth and went stunned back to my crossword . ’ |
| 6 | And in the dark , when we lay beneath a single sheet and I gave off a Calabrian sweat , when the middle stretch of the night was shorter but still hard to get through — then , as I turned towards that loose S beside me , she would , with a soft murmur , try to lift the lost hair from the back of her neck . |
| 7 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 8 | You spend twenty minutes on it every night , and you scratch off a layer of dead skin . |
| 9 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 10 | And she sent off a turtle-dove to ask help from the old marshwife . |
| 11 | It was probably only a rabbit , but it had still unnerved her slightly , and she pulled off the drive and parked on the grass . |
| 12 | The neighbours rushed out and we beat off the thugs with sticks and broom handles . |
| 13 | The Platoon Sergeant loads the necessary extinguishers and fire-fighting equipment into the back of a vehicle and they speed off The accident has occurred a few hundred metres from the Turkish depot in which ammunition is stored for the Force . |
| 14 | One player says he 's only had his cycle this term and finds it very diifficult and he falls off a lot and hurts himself . |
| 15 | He was utterly amiable and without vice and he gave off a constant aura not merely of noxious vapours but of bonhomie . |
| 16 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 17 | He suspected they were terrorists when the they failed to answer his challenge and he fired off a volley of shots from his semi-automatic rifle . |
| 18 | Oh I thought you said he had a fag and he set off the alarm . |
| 19 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 20 | Her park knew she was up there watching and waiting over it , and it tossed off a loving welcoming wave ; it — the tractor , the boys and the bulbs in the earth — knew she had chosen for them and was coming back to them . |
| 21 | The weather was lousy again , in fact it was terrible for about three-quarters of the day and it eased off a little when we went out . |
| 22 | Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence . |
| 23 | But she pulled off a 6–4 , 6–7 , 6–3 victory over Alison Smith , the 23rd ranked Briton , in 2hr 3min to justify the attention afforded to a rather meaningless tennis encounter . |
| 24 | Blunt saw nothing ahead but he shot off a dozen rounds on impulse as he plunged through a great hole . |
| 25 | Mr Samson , in the Barnard Castle-based 223 Field Ambulance Unit , threw a grenade from a trench but it bounced off a wall , rolled back and exploded just six feet away . |