Example sentences of "off [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia , having taken an extra sleeping-pill on his insistence , did not wake , and he himself dozed off for half an hour . |
| 2 | The Yard said the area around the police station was sealed off for half an hour while the package was examined . |
| 3 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |
| 4 | He admitted last night : ‘ It would be incredible if we pulled it off after all the upheaval at the club this season . |
| 5 | Only if the benefit withdrawal rate exceeded 100 per cent would the individual actually be worse off under such a proposal . |
| 6 | Suffice to say that not only are Leeds a better side when he s in it , but his influence will rub off onto all the players at Leeds , young and old . |
| 7 | They were so enthusiastic for these that its pupils regularly walked off with all the trophies on sports days . |
| 8 | It seems as if the top 10 firms are walking off with all the prizes these days — literally . |
| 9 | True enough , in the original imprint of Scouting for Boys he had sounded off with all the usual gusto about ‘ How the Empire Must be Held ’ : . |
| 10 | She could run off with all the stock ! |
| 11 | Oh , please do n't let him be a thief , she prayed ; please do n't let him run off with all the woman 's stock . |
| 12 | Other countries in the system could also be better off with such an arrangement . |
| 13 | In fact we checked in at Heathrow at 2pm but our plane did n't take off until nine the next morning . |
| 14 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 15 | Further , if unc where u , v are units and unc are positive primes then u = v , r = s and the pi and the qi can be paired off in such a manner that paired primes are equal . |
| 16 | Further , if unc where u , v are units and unc are monic irreducible polynomials , then u = v and the gi and the hi can be paired off in such a manner that paired polynomials are equal . |
| 17 | ‘ So he went off in such a hurry or so worried that he forgot to cancel . |
| 18 | For him to brush it off in such a way — I do n't know what would make him say things like that , he 's the sort of man I just would n't expect to have … |
| 19 | Well — the man is old and can no longer show off in such an aria as that in Act II — ‘ Fuor del mar ho un mar nel seno ’ . |
| 20 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 21 | The next time they feel it necessary to spout off in such an ill-informed , ill-advised and half-cocked manner over the issue of immigration , perhaps Councillors and should remind themselves that some of the most severe immigration laws were actually introduced by a Labour Home Secretary . |
| 22 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 23 | That 's where , where it fell off in all the hurricane . |
| 24 | Half the Highlanders ran away at Culloden without striking a blow ; and as for ‘ man to man ’ — if you did n't keep your bliddy head down in the trenches , you got it blown off in half a second . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ By the way , I get off in half an hour . ’ |
| 26 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 27 | The idea of service is extended to include the work that the manager does when he leaves his office , and it is this devotion to duty which marks him off from all the others . |
| 28 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 29 | It was frustrating to be cut off from such a view but of course the original builders of the house had not been impressed by such aesthetic considerations . |
| 30 | The tenant will always be better off without such a review , and consequently should resist its introduction . |