Example sentences of "off [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By demonstrating effective self-regulation the profession could fend off policing by others . |
| 2 | Was n't there a tiny nagging feeling on watching the re-runs of Butterflies that perhaps he would have been better off sticking to television comedy series and enjoying their rich rewards ? |
| 3 | ‘ True , ’ said Phoebe , ‘ but I 'd probably get to be a Union Official immediately , owing to the lack of competition in the Bayswater Chapel , and then Graham would have to give me endless paid hours off to attend to Union Business . ’ |
| 4 | Mark promises to take a week off to go to Disneyland . |
| 5 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 6 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 7 | They run off laughing like parrots as my companion shouts after them in disgust . |
| 8 | I did think you know when I , when we go around and we look at some of these houses like Barratt houses and all like that , I thought that area would of been better off knocking into houses and then you see they would be able to get the community charge of the houses , but as it 's gon na happen now the council 's gon na have a lot of responsibility one way and another with er |
| 9 | Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater . |
| 10 | The army of herders and small farmers that once destroyed wild dogs as a question of principle has gone off to work at FIAT . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for him , his feelings were not reciprocated and she went off to work in America . |
| 12 | Luther did leave the community for good , going off to work in Darlington , where he married and settled down . |
| 13 | ‘ Certainly , sir , ’ Theda replied , and turned as he went off to find in Mrs Alderley 's face a look of blank astonishment . |
| 14 | Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth . |
| 15 | Dr Haidar went off to talk to Mr Postman and I got into conversation with Mr Bhajan Lal , the Pradhan ( headman ) of the village . |
| 16 | Come on you 're always going off to talk to people . |
| 17 | You remember I said I went off looking for Nicola ? ’ |
| 18 | He tossed his horse 's reins to a groom and went storming off looking for Dacourt . |
| 19 | ‘ Now , I fancy him , ’ says Jaci , before rushing off to flirt with Michael Grade . |
| 20 | The first sign that Harriet had not lost her wild instincts came in her third year , when she left the house and started to go off hunting at night . |
| 21 | There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest . |
| 22 | There are two common types both of which can be switched on or off according to need . |
| 23 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 24 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 25 | To read Mrs McDermott 's vivid recollection of those final precious moments when she spoke to her son and tidied his hair before he ran off to play in Ormeau Park where he met his killer would melt the hardest of hearts . |
| 26 | The following year , in May , I sneaked off to audition for Tiller without my mother 's knowledge . |
| 27 | She breaks off to focus on Karen Mulder , a voluptuous streak in skin-tight Alaia , with a dozen red rollers in her blonde hair . |
| 28 | Clothes buying is hardly Yuri 's preferred foreign pastime , though : ‘ When I travel , I prefer to sneak off to look at cars and buy accessories for the ones I have at home — a Volvo , an Audi , a Volkswagen , a Japanese Micro bus — and my favourite , an old Chevrolet . |
| 29 | He threw it in the trolley and went off to look for things Elinor did n't like . |
| 30 | I set off to look for Nigel — quite a long way down , as the staircases did n't connect and one had to walk the complete length of the first-floor gallery before descending the second . |