Example sentences of "off at [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The dark a long way off at each end of the day
2 I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place .
3 Cara nodded and smiled at the pork butcher as she passed him by , being fond of the pies he would sometimes sell off at half price before closing his shop on a Saturday night .
4 Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them .
5 Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search .
6 The encounter can break off at any stage in the process of escalation .
7 A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina .
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