Example sentences of "off [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You could tackle the island 's one and only hill south of Es Calo , stop off for a welcome break at El Mirador and as you cool off with an iced drink , take in the panoramic view . |
| 32 | Short style , finished off with an uneven hairline . |
| 33 | Having correctly spaced the members of the party at the other end of the rope , any spare rope should be coiled neatly around the leader 's shoulders and tied off with an overhand knot , ready for possible use later in the day . |
| 34 | Channel 4 are showing a season of eight of his films , starting tonight with the superb Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac ( 9pm , see Today 's Highlights and the Film Guide ) , and that kicks off with an hour-long look at the man , his private life and his celluloid career . |
| 35 | Scamp maybe said something to himself then , like ‘ Damn ’ or even ‘ Blast ’ , the sort of thing you would say to yourself when you 'd just missed blowing a policeman 's goolies off with an illegal weapon . |
| 36 | No wonder people sometimes start right off with an official complaint or even a writ . |
| 37 | Hopefully Hereford are on the way up after beating Doncaster … good win this … a good performance which kicked off with an early goal from Owen Pickard … |
| 38 | ‘ Thanks , but … ’ she trailed off with an awkward shrug . |
| 39 | The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching . |
| 40 | Their father was a builder and their mother had run off with an Irish bricklayer . |
| 41 | If you 've got rid of a doorway , or turned two rooms into one , round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over ; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels ; or frame it in wood . |
| 42 | The robbers described as Afro- Caribbean made off with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 43 | Blacks start off with an added advantage of being able to move . |
| 44 | If you have to eat a cold chip , you 're better off with an old-fashioned greasy one . |
| 45 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 46 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 47 | At this year 's Reading Festival , Smashing Pumpkins came in slightly below par , perhaps due to the rigours of touring , but , a few nights before , in the more intimate setting of Newcastle 's Riverside , they clean blew the roof off with an energetic gig that showed that some members had an appreciation of heavy metal but knew how to drag it breathing heavily into the '90s . |
| 48 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 49 | Sylvie 's voice flew off into an upper register . |
| 50 | Then he , too , slipped off into an uneasy sleep , and strange , vivid dreams , in which Lieutenant Werner chased him down endless , war-torn and shattered streets , for ever . |
| 51 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 52 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 53 | What I did in the circumstances was go off into an Ollieish riff about je ne sais quoi , keeping Stu achortle without waking the fair Gillian . |
| 54 | Myself ’ trips off into an extended Twin Peaks -ish slither of pacifying , blissful techno-tasting house . |
| 55 | At one gig in Melbourne the crowd invaded the stage in such numbers that LIAM had to stop the show and lead the uninvited participants off in an orderly line . |
| 56 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 57 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 58 | We were there to witness William getting to grips with his brand-new Jet Ski ; this process seemed to consist largely of getting on , powering away , trying to turn too fast and falling off in an extravagant splash . |
| 59 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 60 | John Hendrie gave Boro an early lead and Bristol striker Leroy Rosenior was sent off in an explosive finish to the half . |