Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | charged off against each other 's . |
| 2 | When the harvester moved off into another field , I moved in . |
| 3 | With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel . |
| 4 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 5 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 6 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 7 | Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely . |
| 8 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 9 | That traditional patriarchy , two classes walled off from each other yet co-existent , is disturbed by the elevation of a farmhouse into a cottage ornee ‘ with its viranda , French windows , and other prettinesses ’ , for this contends with the great house for the traveller 's eye . |
| 10 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
| 11 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 12 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 13 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 14 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 15 | It drove off without any siren or light . |
| 16 | Occasionally he sneaked off to one side and had a good long suck at a silver flask . |
| 17 | It came off at one stage . |
| 18 | Twice I came off at that spot . |
| 19 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 20 | Flu victims Steve Gaughan , who was absent from Tuesday 's disastrous defeat by Reading , and Garry Hinchley , who played but came off at half time , are slowly recovering , and should be ready for consideration . |
| 21 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 22 | The helicopters lifted off at 1030 hours . |
| 23 | ‘ … long steady seventy-knot approach … lifted off within 150 yards of touchdown … in the downwind leg at 800 feet … braking to a stop within about 100 meters of the runway start ’ . |
| 24 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 25 | This includes a custody area allowing police vans to off-load prisoners in an area sealed off by double doors . |
| 26 | So we turned up and the fellow had the opportunity , therefore , of hearing his concerto played off by little Wolfgang as if he knew it by heart … |
| 27 | In the late eighteenth century the visionary French mathematical astronomer , the Marquis de Laplace , added some detail to Kant 's vision by proposing that the planets emerged out of the rings of cosmic dust flung off by centrifugal force from the densest part of the cloud that was to become the Sun . |
| 28 | Burglars made off with 75 rolls of roofing felt worth £2,300 from business premises on the Yarm Road Industrial Estate , Darlington . |
| 29 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 30 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |