Example sentences of "the [noun pl] be off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights are off for a bit , so I turn round to look at her . |
| 2 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 3 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 4 | The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs . |
| 5 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 6 | to get themselves on top form and at full fitness the Tigersharks are off to San Fransisco on Wednesday … club fund raising and the mums and dads are paying the bill … why abroad … |
| 7 | It 's just that they they were worried that they were losing , they were worried that they were losing support , of losing cos the peasants are off on their own , you know , what 's the logical path . |