Example sentences of "off [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Vicar of Askrigg and Stalling Busk , the Rev Clive Malpass , was carried pick-a-back to the boat just offshore , these activities ceased and people came off or out of the water to join spectators on the shore . |
| 2 | At one point something heavy fell off or out of the dashboard on to Bob 's foot and rolled away beneath the seat with a metallic ring . |
| 3 | The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour . |
| 4 | off and up into the air with mighty shudders and wobbles . |
| 5 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 6 | ‘ As I 've said , he 's been working off and on on the house as a favour . |
| 7 | But what have we here as plays the ball across , it comes back off and out to the left hand side where the urgency from the crowd is for to get rid of it . |