Example sentences of "it [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 2 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 3 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 4 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 5 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 6 | A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road , with fatal consequences . |
| 7 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 8 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | With a sudden swift movement , he seized the shotgun with his left hand and sent it whirling off into the night after the pistol . |
| 11 | Carefully , I removed the hook ; and then , cradling the trout between cupped hands in the water , I waited until it darted off into the depths . |
| 12 | It came off on the playing field and so there was no way I could find the little screw . |
| 13 | He walked , his pace swift , down the twisting path , then hesitated where it veered off to the staff-cabins . |
| 14 | The hooves slammed out and with a snort of terror it hurtled off up the path followed by the others . |
| 15 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 16 | He came out with a fantastic shot , but it screwed off to the right of the green , and went down oft the mound instead of falling in towards the flag . |
| 17 | ‘ If it takes off in the States , the sky 's the limit , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Apparently , in the movements before a 360 ° loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle . |
| 19 | I managed to roll clear just as it flew off into the air , never to be seen again . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) . |
| 21 | The moaning combine in the field , the tractor and trailer with grain trickling from the back of it as it rumbled off to the corn drier , the waving haze of barley still to be cut , these things all fell into shade as the sun clouded over . |
| 22 | But leaving that aside i i it started off with the , the Co-op in Scotland , and also Safeways . |
| 23 | ‘ It started off with the helmet law and it 's progressed from there , ’ he said . |
| 24 | There 's a long bit of ash on the end of her fag , and when she talks it falls off onto the chickens . |
| 25 | right and it falls off in the soup |
| 26 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 27 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 28 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
| 29 | We had hundreds of er identity cards and ration books , all of which are on display in the library , coupled with some extraordinary things ; er a wedding dress made out of a parachute , and an empty incendiary bomb — I stress empty , I 'd hate to think it went off in the library . |
| 30 | A 53-YEAR-OLD aircraft engineer rode on the tail of a light plane out to sea off New Zealand and back yesterday after it took off without the pilot knowing he was there . |