Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 10 and 16 live whales were seen milling around the mouth of the Nene at 8.30 that morning ; low water was at midday , and at about 5 that afternoon the pod was seen swimming off to the north on the rising tide . |
| 2 | While he was doing this , an Imperial Airways airliner , due to fly to London , prepared to lumber off across the Channel . |
| 3 | Nothing would do more to boost Daniele 's status than to be seen showing off on the Corso while his father 's life still hung in the balance . |
| 4 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 5 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 6 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 7 | Other women in the narrative may not be friends , but are always constructed as rivals for male attention : ‘ She does not consider herself a beauty and this element is used to play off against the beauty of the other woman ( women ) … . ’ |
| 8 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |
| 9 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 10 | After the burial , Corbett sent the equally frightened Ranulf off to the castle , reassuring him that all would be well and authorising him to seek an audience with Bishop Wishart . |
| 11 | Eleven tricks made for a very good score , as several other declarers had actually contrived to go off in the same contract . |
| 12 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 14 | This is a free country and people are allowed to sound off about the fur trade , about vivisection , about experimenting with live animals . |
| 15 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 16 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 17 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 18 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 19 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 20 | I have to go round to the wife of a man — a man ! my best friend ! — whom I have just left trogging off to the tube station ; I have to go round to his wife of six weeks and tell her I love her . |
| 21 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |