Example sentences of "[vb pp] off the [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 2 | Grimma led the rescue party into the office and listened while Sacco , with many interruptions , recounted the adventure from the time Dorcas , out of sudden terror , had jumped out of the truck and had been carried off the rails just before the train arrived . |
| 3 | We had barely got off the ground again when he grabbed the undercarriage lever and shouted into his microphone " this puts the undercarriage up , " followed by the most hysterical laughter . |
| 4 | The truck had toppled off the roof just when he was walking underneath it . |
| 5 | During the night the police sealed off the hospital so that no one might know precisely who was wounded or the number of casualties . |
| 6 | A quick consultation between these two agencies resulted in the top being cut off the car so that the injured man could be lifted free . |
| 7 | Terry and I were worst hit and for a couple of days I was left off the chain so that I could use the toilet whenever I needed . |
| 8 | THE COUNTY now known simply as Lothian is an amalgamation of what used to be East Lothian , Midlothian , and West Lothian , with a few bits chipped off the edges here and there : for example , the little settlement of Stow with its packhorse bridge over the Gala Water was once in East Lothian but has now been lured into the Borders region . |