Example sentences of "off in the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage a bleeper went off in the press gallery which woke up one or two slumbering hacks . |
| 2 | The anniversary of that incident was ‘ celebrated ’ on May 9 last month when firebombs went off in the shopping mall of The Galleries shopping centre at Bristol , at the opposite end of the country . |
| 3 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 4 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |
| 5 | so they 're probably better off in the sweat shop any way |
| 6 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 7 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 8 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 9 | The Fellow , a comfortable winner from Docklands Express in last year 's King George and twice touched off in the Gold Cup , has apparently thrived since finishing third in last month 's Hennessy . |
| 10 | THE earth wo n't move for married astronauts Jan Davis and Mark Lee after they blast off in the shuttle Endeavour tomorrow . |
| 11 | There are signs that latent defects insurance , such as that recommended in the BUILD report , is beginning to take off in the insurance market . |
| 12 | More or less deliberately , what Lord Robert Cecil had pulled off in the peace Ballot was an irresistible fusion of pacifism and patriotism . |
| 13 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 14 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 15 | You can tell us where we are , paid off in the year conservatory . |
| 16 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 17 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 18 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 19 | I would open the door to them and check their names off in the appointment book , often unable to converse because of the language barrier . |
| 20 | She was last seen being driven off in the passenger seat of a red hatchback . |
| 21 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 22 | Getting their own to take off in the market place is another matter . |
| 23 | WHAT with car-jackings , smash-and-grab raids and bombs going off in the car park at the World Trade Centre , no wonder American motorists are turning to Bill O'Gara . |
| 24 | In the early hours of yesterday morning the Drumkeen Hotel at Upper Galwally , Belfast , was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 25 | The building was extensively damaged when a 200 lb car bomb went off in the car park . |
| 26 | Lara had played just where he left off in the World Cup , where he was comfortably the leading West Indian run-scorer with 333 at 47 . |