Example sentences of "off in a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell .
2 Major minor was sent off in a school soccer match .
3 There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction .
4 Terrified commuters were already reeling from the first explosion which went off in a flower bed at at 8.39am when the second , larger Semtex blast came 90 minutes later .
5 right , tie it off in a reef knot , if you 've got bits that are left dangling they 're too long and you ca n't go round again because it 's gon na make it too tight , you can either tuck them in or else you can fold them down , a nice clean plaster and put it right over the top , okay ?
6 The entire cast , in costume and make-up , sets off in a vintage bus at 10 a.m. on the traditional annual pilgrimage to the children 's hospital .
7 After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat .
8 His body was wheeled off in a peat barrow and cremated in the local brick kiln .
9 BRAVE Aaron Solomon , seven , had his thumb ripped off in a farm accident and surgeons sewed it back on after it was packed in ice lollies by his uncle .
10 The man who joined Lascubé in his early bath , hooker Vincent Moscato , has forsaken the rugby pitch to take up his other favourite pastime , boxing , just as he did a couple of years ago when suspended after being sent off in a club match .
11 Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up .
12 Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back .
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