Example sentences of "off [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's admitted passing himself off as the Prince 's chef , and when his dastardly plan to assassinate His Royal Highness by poison did n't work , he kidnapped him . |
| 2 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 3 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 4 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 5 | The well worn paths around a sett lead from the currently used exits to nearby dung pits , and then off towards the badgers ' feeding grounds in fields or gardens . |
| 6 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 7 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 8 | Eventually , he was rewarded by the sight of Inspector Sammy Pike heading out of the library and off towards the gentlemen 's cloakroom . |
| 9 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
| 10 | Reports suggest that up to 5,000 of Olivetti 's 46,000 staff could be laid off under the company 's latest restructuring plan for the coming year . |
| 11 | But , even as she spoke , she heard the dog 's faint , shrill barking and saw him , in the distance , haring off along the water 's edge , scattering sea-birds before him . |
| 12 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 13 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 14 | However I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie 's rather plodding pace . |
| 15 | a pickpocket running off with the victim 's wallet and money . |
| 16 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 17 | It went off in the gents ' toilet on the ground floor . |
| 18 | Bristleworms of all sizes should always be handled with forceps ; those fluffy white spines can break off in the fishkeeper 's skin . |
| 19 | Are you going to finish off in the kid 's room ? |
| 20 | This code is confusingly named 386BSD after the original 386BSD project kicked off in the university 's Computer Systems Research Group in 1989 . |
| 21 | While looking forward in its powerfully climactic , funeral-march sections to the episode of Siegfried 's death in the Wagner excerpts later , the instrumental virtuosity of its writing also seemed to pick up where the preceding concert left off in the Chicago 's bravura , if sometimes coarse-grained account of Strauss 's Ein Heldenleben . |
| 22 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 23 | Whipping off in the Doc 's DeLorean time machine to find 2015 in Hill Valley , California , a purgatorial version of its former self , with the old labouring under hormonal treatment that has fuddled their brains while rejuvenating their bodies and the young equipped with weapons of world-destruction , Marty McFly returns to discover the mid-Eighties in even worse disarray . |
| 24 | Weighed down by a burden of ‘ domestic Sorrows & external disappointments ’ that threatened to overwhelm him , he turned once again to Tom Poole — ‘ my dear , very dear Friend ’ — and on about 15 May set off in the carrier 's van for Stowey . |
| 25 | I went on down the passage , towards the green baize door that closed the back premises off from the gentry 's quarters , pushed the door open , and trod tentatively into the front hall . |
| 26 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 27 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 28 | Jane Postlethwaite went happily up the steps of the club house and off to the ladies ' room . |
| 29 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
| 30 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |