Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining . |
| 2 | Roberto Policano , sent off during the away leg , is suspended but Torino have hit a patch of impressive form which has consolidated their fourth place in the fiercely-competitive Italian league . |
| 3 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 4 | He declined the offer of a lift home , wished me an interesting journey , and set off through a light Prague drizzle . |
| 5 | So if your mains goes off through an electrical storm or something |
| 6 | Quickly they piled into the car , which sped noisily and dangerously off through the quotidian traffic . |
| 7 | They set off through the drizzling rain , climbing the steep path up the rock which the monks said was popularly known as Arthur 's Seat . |
| 8 | The cart trundled off through the greasy water . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 10 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 11 | We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes . |
| 12 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 13 | Then , with an uncaring smile , he strode off through the open doorway . |
| 14 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 15 | The left wing , though still attached to the fuselage , had been almost completely sheared off between the inner engine and the fuselage and was angled back about thirty degrees from normal . |
| 16 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |
| 17 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 18 | Really British , I 'm pissed off about the European passports |
| 19 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 20 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 21 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 22 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 23 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 24 | BRITISH workers have been laid off as a fly-the-flag mission to Seville 's Expo '92 flopped . |
| 25 | Manville knew then that Hayman had been right in writing him off as a washed-up veteran . |
| 26 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 27 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 28 | Beaumont is upset that Jodami 's comfortable two lengths defeat of Rushing Wild is being written off as a sub-standard Gold Cup in some quarters . |
| 29 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 30 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |