Example sentences of "off like a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dodgy S & M imagery of ‘ Raping A Slave ’ ( actually a meditation on power and work ) and other included tracks form the ‘ Young God ’ EP and the still-withering power of ‘ Cop ’ ( ‘ Nobody burns your skin off like a cop ’ ) amidst the all-powerful monotony show that we 've lost something along the way . |
| 2 | Tommy bolted off like a greyhound released from the slips , and the two other men watched as he scampered across the open ground , until some twenty seconds later he reached the safety of the trees . |
| 3 | Then he had simply skied off like a maniac — anger , she registered . |
| 4 | Somebody or something seemed to be trying to speak to her but she felt cut off like a prisoner in a sound-proof box . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't just switch your emotions on and off like a light-switch . ’ |
| 6 | He tore all the wrappings off like a child at Christmas and out gushed a welter of handwritten scripts . |
| 7 | There was no point in going off like a stone from a catapult . |
| 8 | I jerked back , tingling with fear , feeling it peel off like a strand of elastoplast . |
| 9 | She had thought that if her mother had learned to consent , to let go , to be filled , then Phoebe 's passivity and disinterest would drop off like a cloak and she too could be naked with joy and love . |
| 10 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 11 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 12 | I suspect all doctors must learn how to turn charm on and off like a tap . |
| 13 | took off like a bat out of heaven . |
| 14 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 15 | But if terms were agreed he would be off like a shot . |
| 16 | Of course you 'd be panic stricken , your heart would be beating wildly , you would be sweating , shaking , feeling faint , and without a further thought you 'd be off like a shot . |
| 17 | Now that 's a real nuisance with a working dog because it does n't matter where you have your beasts gathered or which direction you want to drive your sheep , a rabbit is always likely to pop up and Meg would be off like a shot . |
| 18 | I 'll be off like a shot the moment my time 's up . ’ |
| 19 | They they 're off like a shot , are n't they . |
| 20 | As soon as you realise that , I suspect you 'll be off like a shot . |
| 21 | and er if Paul has had a phone call from one of these woman then he 's been off like a shot ! |
| 22 | When the green field comes off like a lid |
| 23 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 24 | I held my hand up , fingers splayed , and counted the points off like a teacher in front of a group of scholars . |
| 25 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 26 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 27 | Our official town doctor Rozanov , himself an accoucheur , declared quite positively that on one occasion when a patient in labour was screaming and calling on the name of the Almighty , a free-thinking sally fired off like a pistol-shot by Mrs Virginsky struck such fear into the patient that delivery was greatly accelerated . |
| 28 | As soon as she was safe her rescuer ‘ took off like a streak on down the channel ’ . |
| 29 | Grandad had never been hooked , but on this occasion , he grabbed a Blue Zulu , went off like a rocket and soon broke the cast ; that was about ten years ago : the first and last time anyone came near to catching him . |
| 30 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |