Example sentences of "off [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to graft the two sets ( front and back ) of stitches together then each set of shoulder stitches can be run off on to waste yarn and you are left with three separate groups of stitches all on waste yarn . |
| 2 | I casually wondered how I would get out if a bomb went off down at ground level . |
| 3 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 4 | PRESIDENT Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton , the man who looks set to beat him in today 's US Presidential election , set off yesterday on election eve odyssies . |
| 5 | Michael Miracle 's trip to China late in the summer ( UX No 398 ) seems to have paid off handsomely for Unix System Labs Inc : the People 's Republic of China is going SVR4.2 . |
| 6 | I used to have it changed , every Monday I used to empty the smokehouse , put that in the slaughterhouse to dry and then put a fresh lot in the smokehouse and start her off again with oak sawdust . |
| 7 | There was no sort of law against erm employing people without a certain amount of rest and erm that was employed , er that was occupied that office from first thing in the morning when the bus went out from five o'clock and erm he would , the depot clerk would go off round about dinner time , there 'd be his relief who came on at nine o'clock and worked with him until dinner time and he 'd carry on till five and then we had , what was called , the cashiers come on duty then , there was a cashier and erm a hand . |