Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public impression was that seamen had become substantially worse off during a period in which real wages fell by at least 4% . |
| 2 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 3 | This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices . |
| 4 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 5 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 6 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 7 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 8 | She has played Mozart on stage and in her new film Orlando plays someone who starts off as a man in Elizabethan times and ends up as a woman in the present . |
| 9 | Two police forces and an airline took part in the 350-mile dash to make sure newlyweds Mark and Jan Hemmingway jetted off for a fortnight in the Seychelles . |
| 10 | He could hear her hairdryer , almost as hard on his nerves as a dentist 's drill ; it had ruined three attempts to get the message down already , but he did n't want to ask her to lay off for a while in case the uneasy peace was threatened yet again . |
| 11 | PLACE your bets with Bugsy — and you could be jetting off for a week in Las Vegas the gambling capital of the world . |
| 12 | Chief Press Officer Alwyn James has , I see , won a Guardian travel prize and is off for a week in the Philippines . |
| 13 | This state of things must indeed seem strange to the young people of today who can fly off for a summer in Katmandu with scarcely a quiver of apprehension or pause for wonder . |
| 14 | But in August , just before setting off for a month in Switzerland , he still hoped to have finished a draft of the third act by the end of the year . |
| 15 | MARK JONES , the 16-stone Welsh forward in trouble after being sent off for a punch in Hull 's fiery clash with Warrington , is in more hot water . |
| 16 | When the rain stops I set off for a walk in the cool , after-rain air . |
| 17 | The reception , complete with Thai barbecue , was held in a marquee in the back garden of their south London home , and the newly-weds jetted off for a honeymoon in New York . |
| 18 | Wilcock stayed for a year before briefly taking off for a job in Nassau . |
| 19 | Val set off for the interior in the best of the hire cars available , a well worn seat with grudging breaks , and drove alone on empty roads through a barren and alien territory . |
| 20 | When the Dragons first eleven set off for the sun in a couple of weeks time they 'll be taking with them a pretty impressive record , just 2 defeats in the last seven seasons . |
| 21 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 22 | Anyway , by that stage I was already pissed off after the result in Dublin . |
| 23 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |
| 24 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 25 | I held my hand up , fingers splayed , and counted the points off like a teacher in front of a group of scholars . |
| 26 | But the long-term effect is that the economy at home will take off like a rocket in mid-1993 . |
| 27 | She stalked off like a scarecrow in a rage . |
| 28 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 29 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
| 30 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |