Example sentences of "[vb past] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 2 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 4 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 5 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 6 | UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error . |
| 7 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 9 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 10 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |
| 11 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 12 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 13 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 14 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 15 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 16 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 17 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 18 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 19 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 20 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 21 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 23 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 24 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 25 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 26 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |
| 27 | All the stack-pipes fell off in the Daily Express Trophy at Silverstone , but Graham won again and that race carried a lot of money . |
| 28 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
| 29 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 30 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |