Example sentences of "off [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disney executives believe the porcelain models will become another lucrative spin off for their cartoon empire . |
| 2 | The short trip down from Sicily to Malta , dropping Caroline off for her business assignment , had provided the perfect opportunity . |
| 3 | It 's not a nuisance going off for his weekend break in the . |
| 4 | She had so hoped that Josh would like David ‘ He s tired , ’ she apologized , and took Josh off for his afternoon nap He kicked and screamed , furious that his mother 's attention was being distracted from himself . |
| 5 | Well , if you 're about to set off for your Easter weekend , do take care on the roads . |
| 6 | Mary washes Basil off after his schooling session . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough move the kick off of their home North Division One match with Sandal back to 3pm . |
| 8 | I ca n't understand that either , they ai n't getting no relief off of their poll tax and yet they 're , yet she 's not at work and he 's on the dole , and they still having to pay full whack . |
| 9 | Do you have to ti , do you tick them off against your cheque book stubs ? |
| 10 | Sun Life 's pensions manager Tony Tollerton agrees that people over 40 are usually better off with their company pension . |
| 11 | Unlike Paradox , which starts you off with its table view , DataEase is forms-based — the table view is an option . |
| 12 | And the fact that she was taking time off with her dyke lover offered more flexibility , more opportunities for invention . |
| 13 | Sister Cooney , noting the way he trembled , helped him off with his dressing gown and tucked him in . |
| 14 | Hoping to attract the new emperor 's attention , Mozart set off with his brother-in law , in his own coach , arriving at Frankfurt on 28 September , after a quick , six-day journey . |
| 15 | Oh , they like to show off in their peacock plumery , but it 's all shadow and no substance with them . |
| 16 | The no-boundary proposal implies that these differences in density would start off in their ground state ; that is , they would be as small as possible , consistent with the uncertainty principle . |
| 17 | Kicking her shoes off in her hotel bedroom , hanging up her Chanel suit , removing her earrings , she could n't help feeling glad — sorry though she undoubtedly was , of course — that poor Felicity had been laid low with the chicken-pox . |
| 18 | ‘ O'course t is none o ’ my business but you wo n't find Maurice if it 's him you want to see ; he went off in his li'l truck when we was sitting down to our dinners . |
| 19 | While Labour 's campaign is slick and glossy , the Lib Dem election literature was run off in his back bedroom in Redcar . |
| 20 | He detected a slackening off in his examination work , once he had gained his Exhibition — ‘ a moral weakness , neglect of order in my work and play ’ ; often these ‘ moods ’ sent him back to his digs almost beside himself . |
| 21 | Sara , busy about her own affairs , and always up early , occasionally caught a glimpse of him driving off in his estate car in the morning . |
| 22 | They could all swim like fish and occasionally , just for the hell of it , he and one or two of his braver friends would deliberately allow themselves to be cut off from their home bank by one of the smaller , less fearsome tides . |
| 23 | The clerks handing out ballot papers at your polling station yesterday were selected by the local electoral registration officer : in most instances , they were taking the day off from their town hall desk at the rate of £61.02 each . |
| 24 | ‘ She 'll be here in an hour or so , when she has dried off from her boat trip with Polidori . |
| 25 | Her husband was recently laid off from his construction job and is now employed part-time as a night watchman . |
| 26 | One of the secretaries kindly dropped me off on her car route home , which — as it was bucketing rain yet again — I appreciated . |
| 27 | As they headed off on their Whitsun holiday , backbenchers were already muttering about the next shake-up . |
| 28 | In the women 's competition , the Long Road squad , led by Norfolk 's top two county players Amanda Brown and Judy Rich , were favourites to win the national title for indoor tennis clubs — and they soon showed why , as they set off on their victory trail with a quick dismissal of Queen 's in the opening doubles rubber of the semi-final . |
| 29 | now taking us off on our action round-up tonight is Chris Symonds of Oxford … he 's going for gold … he 's going on the scariest sporting ride of all |
| 30 | It was n't until I heard Dennis say , ‘ I 'll just fetch up another bottle of the Hunter Valley ’ that it was borne in on me that the woman who was frenching me and bringing herself off on my belt buckle was none other than Karen Parsons , the wife of Dennis Parsons , who was currently six feet away on the other side of the dining-room door and closing rapidly . |