Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 2 | A new conveyancer would be well advised to have a typed-out schedule of steps clipped into the side of his file , so that each requirement can be ticked off as the transaction proceeds . |
| 3 | So they follow their pseudo-parents as they set off for the village shops , until they feel themselves getting too far from the ‘ nest ’ , and then break off to return to safety . |
| 4 | Tabitha Jute pulled up the collar of her old foil jacket and strode off past the concession stalls , looking for transport . |
| 5 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 6 | In order to get a true comparison between the firms ( and accordingly between the contributions , both capital and income generating , of their partners ) it may be necessary : ( 1 ) to revalue capital assets to a common date ; ( 2 ) to bring in the profits from the disposal of any property not required by the merged firm ; ( 3 ) to devise some means of compensation if goodwill is to be written out of account where it has previously been treated as an asset in which the partners have a share ; ( 4 ) where work in progress features in the accounts of one of the firms , to eliminate it by billing or to write it off against the capital accounts of that firm 's partners ; ( 5 ) to settle how bad debts are to be treated post-merger , either charged generally against the new firm or separately against the partners of the old firms ; ( 6 ) to write off the value of old fixtures and fittings ; ( 7 ) to revise profit and loss accounts to a common accounting date . |
| 7 | The day started off with a breathing techniques class to help relieve the stress of everyday life and was followed by a Yoga class . |
| 8 | Well we the E E C started off with the water filtrations and air products and then they got tied up with an American outfit doing fuel savers , magnets for your car . |
| 9 | HE 'S been running off with the toilet rolls — and viewers ' affections — for 21 years . |
| 10 | He 'd tried to frighten Jacqui off with the telephone messages and vicious note , but if she persisted … |
| 11 | So it 's off with the number plates … forget next month 's world championships … here comes the thrill of the open road . |
| 12 | Or are you afraid I 'll make off with the family jewels ? ’ |
| 13 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 14 | The thief made off with the week-end offerings from St. Mary 's Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church in Killyleagh . |
| 15 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 16 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 17 | Wash your cans up erm and er and then they 'd go and finish off in the corn fields . |
| 18 | It was the perfect response from Mike Walker 's side after Saturday 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon which once again saw the East Anglians being written off in the title stakes . |
| 19 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 20 | These are working copies of plans , run off from the DNA masters held in the cell 's precious archives . |
| 21 | It was thus able to draw on the large reservoir of latent discontent among Liberals and the intellectuals which had been only slightly touched by the problem of unemployment and which was completely cut off from the syndicalist traditions of working class militancy in the previous decade . |
| 22 | We wasted no time taking off over the rice paddies of Thailand . |
| 23 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 24 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 25 | She saw old Diggory shuffling off to the back regions , the protesting Hector in tow . |
| 26 | He was a baby-faced product of the concerned middle classes , born in Derby and whisked off to the Home Counties at an early age . |
| 27 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 28 | ‘ Off to the burial grounds today ? ’ |
| 29 | To get into this trade , the Company was reorganized in 1663 and added buying slaves and shipping them off to the sugar islands to its original objectives . |
| 30 | He 's so sweet to her , thought Daisy gratefully , getting out her sketchbook as Drew took the team off to the pony lines to tack up . |