Example sentences of "off after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 2 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 3 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 4 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 5 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 6 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |