Example sentences of "you [vb base] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 2 | The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity . |
| 3 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 4 | You can get to us , you can get on at the ba , at the baths and it comes up past Park and you get off , you get off at the end of Wickham Avenue |
| 5 | What the camera can not reveal is when you set off on the second nine from the 10th tee , by the time you reach the green you have travelled nearly 60 feet downhill . |
| 6 | before you rush off to the local retailer , cash in hand , take a little time to consider the type of runner you are and what you really need . |
| 7 | Traffic is still slow moving on the M twenty-five , that 's clockwise at junction sixteen , where you turn off for the M forty . |
| 8 | The assistant recorder , David Barlett , told Burnett : ‘ Like a latter-day Francis Drake , you go off into the ocean , heading apparently for France , but it turns out actually in the direction of Canada . |
| 9 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
| 10 | You start off with the truth , embellish it slightly , then gradually add to it , until you finish up with a fully-fledged whopper . |
| 11 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 12 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 13 | So you start off on the basis that you will be entitled to a new lease under the 1954 Act provided you take the necessary steps within the time scale set out in the Act . |
| 14 | For example : A : You start off on the ring road … |
| 15 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 16 | You start off in the dank dungeons and your aim is to work your way to the top . |
| 17 | All your horses are out , put your men up they walk round the ring and at seven o'clock you move off to the heath to train your horses . |
| 18 | However , Beinn Alligin provides no such logistical problems and it 's a fabulous start to the walk up the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil through a forest , again passing close to some splendid waterfalls , before you veer off to the left and head towards the dauntingly steep corrie that is the most direct route to the summit . |
| 19 | ‘ You take off to the other side of the world to get a clearer perspective on what 's happening here , right ? |
| 20 | If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 . |
| 21 | ‘ Good ’ work has to be seen as More than crime-fighting : ‘ Like , this is the sort of job that you come off at the end of the night and say to yourself ‘ What did I do ? ’ |