Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one more anxious glance she took off for the other end of the pool and a quick look showed that he was already on his way , moving with powerful strokes and keeping well clear of her . |
| 2 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 3 | Hauser thought the only way to keep his top men on their toes was to play one off against the other : to hint now and again someone else was after ; their job . |
| 4 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 5 | A state enterprise may be able to manoeuvre among the diverse pressures on it , playing one off against the other ( Levy 1987 ) ; what Feigenbaum ( 1982 : 113 ) refers to as ‘ corporate manipulation of the state ’ . |
| 6 | Then , not daring to glance round to see whether the cows were coming after her , she put one foot on the pedal , pushed off with the other , and began to ride away . |
| 7 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 8 | However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release . |
| 9 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 10 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 11 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 12 | Therefore , if a moth hears a bat approaching about 100 feet away , its best policy is to fly off in the other direction . |
| 13 | Edward Crumwallis did one of his characteristic swerves , and went abruptly off in the other direction . |
| 14 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 15 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 16 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 17 | But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme . |
| 18 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 19 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 20 | ‘ You take off to the other side of the world to get a clearer perspective on what 's happening here , right ? |
| 21 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 22 | Four steps backwards — another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook ! |
| 23 | So even University was n't completely on one side , and again the City was erm there was this sort of Puritan element that did n't like the King 's religious policies , erm there was this general feeling against the University which tended to put them off to the other side , but there are undoubtedly loyal citizens erm citizens loyal to the King . |
| 24 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |