Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 2 | The public impression was that seamen had become substantially worse off during a period in which real wages fell by at least 4% . |
| 3 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She carted all the junior nursing staff off during the afternoon for a training session in one of the treatment-rooms , and by the end of a vigorous drilling they seemed to have it firmly implanted . |
| 6 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 7 | The Aussie forward was stretchered off during the win over Hull at Wilderspoool , after an incident involving former Welsh RU international Mark Jones . |
| 8 | This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 12 | He walked off through the press of people now all but blocking the way to the door . |
| 13 | And with Superintendent Pumfrey marching off through the door into the private quarters of the Crumwallises , the investigation into the death of Hilary Frome began in earnest . |
| 14 | The Muslim 's bird slowly righted itself , got unsteadily to its feet , then limped off through the legs of the crowd . |
| 15 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 16 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 17 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 18 | ‘ Then the swan , keeping very low , will fly off through the forest with the ravenous Gruncher hotfoot in pursuit . |
| 19 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 20 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 21 | Pointer set off through the trees with a loping stride . |
| 22 | The road continues past the buildings and after ¾ mile the trail runs off through the trees to the forest perimeter . |
| 23 | I crossed the gravel and started idly off through the trees to the east . |
| 24 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 25 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |
| 26 | Ca n't get enough of them , ’ interrupted Dexter with a broad smile , anxious to push the superintendent off her soapbox before she started to sound off about the worthlessness of most television . |
| 27 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 28 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 29 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 30 | Dressed , Dawn could be passed off as a member of the audience . |