Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rolls up , it , it 's retractable inside the body or it drops off after an orgasm |
| 2 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 3 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 4 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 5 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 6 | What starts off as a bit of a laugh could quickly turn into an embarrassing muddle . |
| 7 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
| 8 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 9 | Yeah everybody starts off as a sergeant . |
| 10 | How Christianity starts off as the religion of peace but ends up violent like other religions . |
| 11 | One starts off with a syndrome and uses it to develop a theory of normal processing . |
| 12 | In fact if you 'll if you look in here you you get a it starts off with a tour of er head office and all our facilities there . |
| 13 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 14 | The foreign-language teacher usually starts off with a class with a set to learn . |
| 15 | Yes , I I think , in cer in in most cases that would happen , would n't it , if if if the child starts off with a feeling of insecurity , with possible instability . |
| 16 | Pillars of Gold starts off with a woman 's body being fished out of Camden Lock and a woman called Barbs going missing . |
| 17 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
| 18 | The fourth and fifth relate to a long-standing debate about the purpose of RE — this is the " confessional " approach which starts off from the assumption of the truth of a particular religious viewpoint and seeks to nurture pupils within , or strongly encourage them towards accepting , that viewpoint . |
| 19 | Everyone had a potential for narcissism because the baby starts off in a world of its own , in a state of primary narcissism . |
| 20 | It 's a weird thing erm it starts off in the root and then it erm u used a single mouse fix to patch it |
| 21 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 22 | The light swerves off in an instant , and it 's darker than ever . |
| 23 | Gillian Lacy and Roberto Mader 's Capoeira Quickstep is the most ambitious and also most disappointing of the collection , a ‘ fictional documentary ’ about the Afro — Brazilian dance-cum-martial art which sort of spins off from a relationship between a British girl and a Brazilian but meanders somewhat in sub-Terence Davies style without even coming up with much in the way of dance . |
| 24 | My eyes are respectfully downcast while this paunch on legs breaks his wrist , blows a kiss , and sashays off to the tea-machine ? |
| 25 | Day Two : At 8.00am breakfast is on the table and your cruiser casts off for the sail to the ancient spa town of Bad Schandau . |
| 26 | Here is Tufnell coming up again , bowls over and outside the off stump , and that one goes to Robin Smith , and he 's hit somewhere on the boot and ricochets off down the pitch . |
| 27 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 28 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |
| 29 | Like a female Eldritch blessed with the dark side of Patti Smith 's voice and persona , Louise drifts off into the sort of ethereal world that brings to mind fear and insanity rather than the more straightforward bliss of , say , the Cocteaus . |
| 30 | Like a female Eldritch blessed with the dark side of Patti Smith 's voice and persona , Louise drifts off into the sort of ethereal world that brings to mind fear and insanity rather than the more straightforward bliss of , say , the Cocteaus . |