Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the moment Vincente 's back was turned the ball tended to squirt off at eccentric angles — or , worse , refuse to move at all . |
| 2 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 3 | John Goodman , Tom Hanks , Aerosmith , Candice Bergen and Bruce Willis all made the effort to come off like good sports , gamely responding ‘ What ? ’ to Myers ' dopey ‘ Fagssaywhat ’ . |
| 4 | Erm I 've started writing off , we 've drafted a letter to write off to different colleges and sort of I 'll write off before I do my exams . |
| 5 | The cars used to set off at one-minute intervals , originally starting at 9.00 p.m. on a Saturday but that was changed in 1949 to midnight , . |
| 6 | She set her alarm clock to go off at hourly intervals throughout the night , but even before its first summons she was disturbed . |
| 7 | He also claimed that there was " no independent constitutional authority for Congress to go off on investigatory frolics of its own " . |
| 8 | Lock your door , set whatever device will rouse you at a definite time ( cooking-timer , flashing alarm clock , vibrator ) — set it to go off in eight minutes . |
| 9 | They tended , however , to go off in different directions . |
| 10 | Either way you are bound to drift off into unconnected chains of thought , which does n't matter a bit . |
| 11 | The 28-year-old suffered a thigh injury in last night 's League game against Partick Thistle and was forced to limp off after 37 minutes . |
| 12 | to cast off in small groups but it also gives a neat edge without the stepped edge that usually occurs . |
| 13 | It is possible , however , to start off with good intentions , but to slip back on all these important elements once the pressure of circumstances begins to dictate . |
| 14 | To grow good berries it is necessary to start off with good trees of the right variety . |
| 15 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 16 | Scientific research begins to pay off with spectacular dividends in the fields of medicine , physics and chemistry . |
| 17 | We have to get off after three weeks . |
| 18 | Those who use the motorway regularly like lorry drivers tend to stop off during foggy periods . |
| 19 | There is a great natural temptation for new members to cast doubts on the worth of pursuing an existing project and to want to push off in new directions . |
| 20 | They were first developed on seaplanes to encourage them to take off at lower speeds and are now a common feature on speedboats . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it is necessary to start somewhere and it might be useful to take off from those analyses . |
| 22 | An important feature was the establishment of specific aircraft performance requirements , that is to say the ability of an aircraft to be able to take off in given circumstances within a specified distance and also to come to a stop after landing in not more than a specified length of runway . |
| 23 | This is a difficult trick to bring off with suburban trains hurtling by on one side and lorries grinding through their gears on the other . |
| 24 | He was probably the sort of liberal , Dexter thought , who boasted of the number of blacks he knew but whose acquaintance was limited to inviting them round to show off at trendy drinks parties . |