Example sentences of "off [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARILLION singer Steve Hogarth was left red-faced when a fan tried to rip his trousers off during a sell-out show . |
| 2 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 3 | It sprang down off her lap and prowled off through a flower bed . |
| 4 | She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door . |
| 5 | Although it started off as a school project , the spider catcher has attracted alot of outside interest . |
| 6 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 7 | One young man , who was attending a large machine which was railed off as a safety precaution , warned Humphrey of the dangers of moving machinery . |
| 8 | Susan , from West Derby , started off as a trainee beautician aged 17 at the Finishing Touches Salon in Castle Street . |
| 9 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 10 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 11 | He started off as a counter clerk |
| 12 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 13 | Character statistics play very little part in the proceedings , which is unforgivable for a product passing itself off as a roleplaying game . |
| 14 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |
| 15 | CHRIS BURTON , Featherstone 's former Great Britain forward , has been suspended for five matches by the Rugby League disciplinary committee after being sent off for a head tackle in Featherstone 's home championship defeat by Leeds last Sunday . |
| 16 | STEVE HAMPSON , the Wigan and Great Britain full-back , was suspended for 10 matches by the disciplinary committee yesterday after being sent off for a head tackle in Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final with at Leeds . |
| 17 | Celebrities strip off for a TV valentine |
| 18 | ‘ Apparently , Owen is intending to take Liz off for a weekend trip , all on their own , while the children are going to stay with a friend . |
| 19 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |
| 20 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 21 | If it 's hard to find time to think , take yourself off for a solo stroll or encourage a loved one to discuss and debate issues that affect you both . |
| 22 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 23 | After meeting the Soviet culture minister , and the musical director of the Bolshoi opera , Mr Palmer set off for a cellar club-cum-recording studio and gallery to hear a folk singer break the musical mould and , hopefully , erase the memory of the song ( ‘ I Belong To … ’ ) |
| 24 | After the celebrations were over , the couple took off for a honeymoon retreat in Asia . |
| 25 | PRINCESS Diana and her two boys will jet off for a sunshine holiday in the Caribbean , it was revealed last night . |
| 26 | A COUPLE who left their two children ‘ Home Alone ’ while they jetted off for a sunshine Christmas holiday were being questioned by police last night . |
| 27 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 28 | The stuttering start , a last lap breakdown in Canada and the fiasco of Portugal , where his rear right wheel fell off after a pit stop , undermined his campaign . |
| 29 | He signed off after a fighting display at the famous Daytona racetrack in America two years ago . |
| 30 | I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon. |