Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [pron] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Navjuvanov was dismissed , accused of corruption , and it appeared to have been this event which sparked off the rallies outside the parliament building in Shahidan ( " Martyrs ' " ) Square . |
| 2 | On this occasion he ran off across the field , but was later arrested . |
| 3 | So , this morning I set off down Lennox Gardens , the Street with No Name , and then into Rumsey Road . |
| 4 | All this explains the rather unusual haste of New Zealand to secure the 1994 South African tour at the expense of the announced short tour to the Republic this summer which triggered off considerable controversy . |
| 5 | This time one came off ; the man who ran the shy picked it up and gave it to Emmie . |
| 6 | This time we start off with six hundred and we take away thirty per cent . |
| 7 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |