Example sentences of "off at [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
2 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention — although anything that the Government nationalise they may flog off at a profit at a later date , so I ask him to keep an eye on the situation . |
3 | The institutional investors that charged into junk bonds in the 1980s have now headed off at a gallop in the opposite direction . |
4 | The boy dropped the halter he was holding and set off at a run through the gateway and towards the big house . |
5 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
6 | This year his television career set off at a run with Aah Sean , a one hour documentary which offered a cock-eyed perspective on his Dublin youth . |
7 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |
8 | And he says , sells his off at a quarter of a million , per cube . |
9 | From Morpeth Gate we turned right following the path towards Swinithwaite , striking off at a kink in the lane to the field gate that led to the ruined Chapel of the Knights Templars . |
10 | The Allies then presented Germany with a bill for US & dollar 32 billion to be paid off at a rate of & dollar 500 million dollars per year . |
11 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
12 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
13 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
14 | Well we 'll start off at the top of Road and on the one side there was the furniture people they used to make furniture . |
15 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
16 | ‘ We 're off at the crack of dawn , ’ added Jenny . |
17 | Cut them off at the base with a razor blade or craft knife . |
18 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
19 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
20 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
21 | Teachers often report that they completely switch off at the beginning of the holidays , or sleep for abnormally long periods of time for several days . |
22 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
23 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
24 | Leeds charged back down the M62 still mouthing off at the injustice of defeat . |
25 | We also have the latest in up-to-date technology — the TV set in the corner , which has a twin BBC-ITV facility , and , of course , a number of lights that can be turned on or off at the flick of a switch . |
26 | A TEENAGER had his arm ripped off at the shoulder by a cement mixer yesterday . |
27 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
28 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |
29 | Can you drop me off at the apartment on your way home , Sergei ? |
30 | She is aware of ‘ something lovely somewhere , something that is gone , or hidden , or yet to be attained ’ , but why this urge to scream her head off at the sight of an uncleared breakfast table ? |