Example sentences of "off [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , you know , maybe it 's something we can do in just a one off during the winter |
| 2 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 3 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |
| 4 | Fire crackers are let off during the day . |
| 5 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 6 | Do you often feel like dozing off during the day when you need to be awake ? |
| 7 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 8 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 9 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 10 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 11 | She carted all the junior nursing staff off during the afternoon for a training session in one of the treatment-rooms , and by the end of a vigorous drilling they seemed to have it firmly implanted . |
| 12 | Some of the scenes , such as the ‘ fly-by-wire ’ shots of an Allison-powered unmanned replica P–40 attempting to take off during the attack , did not go as planned but actually turned out better . |
| 13 | All his favourite soloists appeared , many fronting his best troupes ; Amy Knott with the Forget-me-nots , Bessie as usual with the Troubadours and Maggie Rimmer and the new Rainbow troupe who slipped off during the run to do a couple of weeks at the London Pavilion and the Oxford , then returned to complete the season . |
| 14 | The girls will get just two days off during the run . |
| 15 | It is a kind of mystery tour , with an unimaginable destination ; not surprisingly many pupils fall asleep or jump off during the journey . |
| 16 | This makes it a little less likely that mud , attached to the log , will wash off during the journey . |
| 17 | After Smith and two other Dunstable players were sent off during the match , the rest of the team left the field . |
| 18 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 19 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 20 | I keep coming across internal memoranda about which offices are to have their heating turned off during the morning and which during the afternoon . |
| 21 | Yes , I have I posted it off during the week to My Weekly , because I thought because the it was about a girl in all trouble , I think it |
| 22 | But the battalion did n't give him that many evenings off during the week , and if she did n't see him when he was free it often turned out to be several days before they could spend another evening together . |
| 23 | Tora ! filming was not a happy one , as the film crew obliterated the old paint on the airframe and ground-looped a gear leg off during the filming . |
| 24 | The flight originated at Navy Dallas , Grand Prairie , Texas , for an IFR cross-country flight to Washington , D.C. The flight crew could not rotate the aircraft for lift off during the takeoff roll on Runway 17 , 8,000 feet in length . |
| 25 | The Aussie forward was stretchered off during the win over Hull at Wilderspoool , after an incident involving former Welsh RU international Mark Jones . |
| 26 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 27 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 28 | He walked off through the press of people now all but blocking the way to the door . |
| 29 | And with Superintendent Pumfrey marching off through the door into the private quarters of the Crumwallises , the investigation into the death of Hilary Frome began in earnest . |
| 30 | Then he swung round and marched off through the door . |