Example sentences of "off [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | like that or your power is cut off because the E the M E B is digging the road up down and they say that your electric will be off for the next |
| 2 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 3 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 4 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 5 | There might seem to be a number of inherent problems in producing a journal on British Surrealism , namely that the possibility of live interviews will diminish as the first generation of these artists and writers die off in the next few years ; secondly , there seems to be a tendency on the part of those who produce surrealist literature to make it look surrealist , although the rather bitty appearance of the present journal is probably as much to do with its very low budget ( a small grant from the University of London ) as with its artistic affiliations . |
| 6 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 7 | The eggs remain in the damp sand , safe from marine predators , until they hatch out fifteen days later and swim off on the next high spring tide . |
| 8 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 9 | Then , as the heel touches the ground , lock your ankle and shift your weight forward with the knee bent , rocking forward onto the toes and using them to push you off to the next step . |
| 10 | The three players walked off to the next tee . |
| 11 | Dispatch contains the sense of ’ , ‘ to get on with something ’ , haste , and also ‘ to do away with ’ , to polish off , to send off to the next life . |
| 12 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 13 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 14 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 15 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 16 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 17 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 18 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 19 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 20 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 21 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |
| 22 | people are gon na say oh well I 'll get off at the next one |