Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking in a loud voice whilst approaching a hide is the guaranteed way to become an expert in identifying the back ends of birds flying off in a panic . |
| 2 | Not a single vehicle passed , but after some time they heard the roar of bombs going off at the airfield . |
| 3 | In evolutionary game theory , we imagine a population of animals pairing off at random and playing this game . |
| 4 | He told some gory stories of eagles carrying off dogs and lambs , of their being shot and maimed . |
| 5 | He had been a fisherman and told tales of the waters ‘ boiling ’ with seals near the Monach Isles , of canoeists setting off for St Kilda and of frequent sightings of porpoises , dolphins , basking sharks , even the occasional whale … |
| 6 | Sailors perform in man-on-man heats in front of a panel of judges showing off their jumping , riding and turning skills in the waves . |
| 7 | They could thus prevent any group of workers going off and setting up their own workshop in competition to the merchant and capitalist class . |
| 8 | Tabby began purring which sounded , to the miniature Mildred , like a squadron of aeroplanes taking off . |
| 9 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 10 | But this was one of those large , Victorian houses than seem to have endless flights of stairs leading off from each level . |
| 11 | Some executives of the company wanted to expand into the travel business , but in 1900 the testy head of American Express , James Congdell Fargo , was still adamantly against it , ‘ I will not have gangs of trippers starting off in charabancs from in front of our offices the way they do from Cooks ’ , he stormed . |
| 12 | A HUGE REWARD £10,000 is offered by HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING to any person helping to capture any of the NOTORIOUS BANDS of SMUGGLERS trafficking off our Coasts So heinous are their crimes , so urgent the necessity of checking their activities that ALL ARE INVITED |
| 13 | Bits of wings falling off . |
| 14 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 15 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |