Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
2 | Lord Hartington , the senior steward of the Jockey Club , sounded off about stable lads ' conditions in his speech at last night 's Gimcrack Dinner . |
3 | By 1982 , the bank sent him off for four months ' study at Harvard Business School . |
4 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
5 | Liverpool went out in disgrace , Mike Marsh becoming their third player to be sent off in four Cup-Winners ' Cup ties this season as Spartak Moscow won a cold war at Anfield that also produced five bookings . |
6 | Unsecured creditors should agree to accept a down payment of around 35p in the pound for money due to them , and to take the balance in redeemable convertible preference shares in Prior Harwin , to be paid off in four years ' time . |
7 | Thanks to the generosity of staff in LASMO 's London offices , bags full of loose foreign coins — worth about £500 — have been sent off to two children 's charities . |