Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 2 | today this becomes the first railway shadow franchise , its operations hived off into a separate company ready to be sold . |
| 3 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 4 | She trotted beside Miss Honey with wild little hops and her fingers flew as if she would scatter them to the four winds and her words went off like fireworks , with terrific speed . |
| 5 | In 1579 court-messengers were condemned in Star Chamber to have their ears lopped off for stealing £3,000 from the Crown in seven years . |
| 6 | The service over , the Covenanters and their supporters moved off towards Drumclog on the Strathaven road . |
| 7 | Lots secured by deposits must have their balances paid off within twenty-four hours . |
| 8 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 9 | He turned and looked at Dinah lying on the bed , her shoes kicked off beside it , her hair out of its pins for comfort , her gown unlaced . |
| 10 | And their concerns rubbed off on some of the elderly residents who spent an uncertain Christmas not knowing whether they would be staying or be forced to leave . |
| 11 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 12 | Although Moscow undertook a trade push in Latin America in the late 1960s ( offering credits of $100 million to Brazil in 1966 , $57 million to Chile in 1967 , $2 million to Colombia and $20 million to Uruguay in 1968 ) and saw its efforts pay off to some extent with a steady increase in turnover between the two regions during the 1970s , the true extent of the Soviet economic presence in Latin America is by no means as great as many observers claim ( see appendix for detailed figures on Soviet trade with Latin America ) . |
| 13 | Her maids stood off at a slight distance , amongst the trees , talking quietly amongst themselves and pretending not to watch her , but she knew they were as inquisitive as she . |
| 14 | The woman was pushed to the ground before her attackers sped off in her Ford Cortina . |
| 15 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 16 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 17 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 18 | Now four English teenagers are dead following a canoeing accident off the Dorset coast , intensifying the concerns of parents all over Britain as they watch their children set off with their mates , while wondering what the chances are that something might go horribly wrong . |
| 19 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 20 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 21 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 22 | Herrick looked away past him , his eyes staring off into some imaginary distance . |
| 23 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 24 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 25 | Sales of his containers took off after some direct sellers had demonstrated them . |
| 26 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 27 | But brightness was in short supply as his players trooped off to a crescendo of boos . |
| 28 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 29 | At this point , as often happened , his thoughts wandered off into irrelevant philosophical channels . |
| 30 | Planning a new border is always an exciting proposition but before you start , follow Phillippa Lambert 's preparation tips to ensure that your plants get off to a flying start |