Example sentences of "off [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 6 | Anyway , by that stage I was already pissed off after the result in Dublin . |
| 7 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
| 10 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 11 | Luci Hayter is here , whose husband went off with the girl in market research . |
| 12 | With more than $20m-worth of Microsoft shares , Mr Shirley will sail off into the sunset in June , when he plans to retire . |
| 13 | They career off into the future in a way that is , in one sense , pointless and futile , in another sense progressive and endlessly fascinating to us , the observers . |
| 14 | ‘ You two spend a lot of time talking , ’ she remarked one day , materializing beside my chair as Lynn shambled off into the house in search of tea to counter the Dionysiac influence of the southern sun . |
| 15 | My supper flapped off round the corner in a storm of feathers with the blood coming out of the side of its beak . |
| 16 | As she got out , she spotted a sign to the library , and set off in the direction in which it pointed . |
| 17 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 18 | In the second division in this day and age , I had to climb a wooden ladder , I had to go all the way to the very top of the main stand and there was a shed , and at the end of the match , surface water forced me to dry my socks off in the radiator in the dressing rooms afterwards . |
| 19 | In the Dialtext product virtually the entire Macintosh desktop has been blocked off from the user in order to prevent potential disasters like the erasure of disks or files . |
| 20 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 21 | So much for the talk on with the race … the mountain bikers hit the road first … 144 set off from the start in the centre of town … |
| 22 | He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there . |
| 23 | The most informal interview will be one where the interviewer , having once started the interview off on the theme in which he is interested , allows the informant to dictate the subsequent situation . |
| 24 | ‘ As my mother no longer had means to live , she died ; and I took myself off to the south in search of more sunshine and a master who asked no questions . ’ |
| 25 | Mary 's offer had been rejected without their thinking twice about it and she and Adam had said goodbye in a cool , offhand sort of way and Rufus had driven her off to the station in Goblander . |
| 26 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 27 | I do n't want to send anybody off to the mensa in case something 's happened and he needs us . |
| 28 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 29 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 30 | When he went off to the war in 1914 she took a job as an usherette in an effort to get as near as possible to the warmth of the theatre and away from the coldness of his family . |