Example sentences of "off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining . |
| 2 | Roberto Policano , sent off during the away leg , is suspended but Torino have hit a patch of impressive form which has consolidated their fourth place in the fiercely-competitive Italian league . |
| 3 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 4 | That did n't half pay off during the Open . |
| 5 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 6 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 7 | Quickly they piled into the car , which sped noisily and dangerously off through the quotidian traffic . |
| 8 | They set off through the drizzling rain , climbing the steep path up the rock which the monks said was popularly known as Arthur 's Seat . |
| 9 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 10 | The cart trundled off through the greasy water . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 12 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 13 | We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes . |
| 14 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 15 | Then , with an uncaring smile , he strode off through the open doorway . |
| 16 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 17 | The left wing , though still attached to the fuselage , had been almost completely sheared off between the inner engine and the fuselage and was angled back about thirty degrees from normal . |
| 18 | For instance , Charles Harvey has tipped her off about the new motorway but she pretends she does n't know . |
| 19 | Really British , I 'm pissed off about the European passports |
| 20 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 21 | It was rather a coincidence that she was wearing a dark blue guernsey exactly like Laura 's , with a neck which necessitated the same blindfold struggle to get it off About the whole incident Richard felt no dissatisfaction and certainly no regret . |
| 22 | Mr Nicholas Bragge , for the French producers , claimed that the elderflower drink had been ‘ dressed up ’ in a champagne bottle with the familiar wire top and was being passed off as the real stuff . |
| 23 | for the sake of the museums otherwise they would be t probably passed off as the real thing . |
| 24 | You could pass that off as the real thing . |
| 25 | The noise in the kitchen switched off as the small second she stood there half-naked seemed to lengthen into years . |
| 26 | They are frankly calling their new cheeses by new brand names , making them in different shapes and original packings , selling them on their own merits rather than attempting to pass them off as the great traditional products of an unmechanized and unstandardized age . |
| 27 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 28 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 29 | We could have passed you off as the English rose of our collection , although I trust you have n't the natural frigidity of your British sisters . ’ |
| 30 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |