Example sentences of "off [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the occasion will be given more spice by the fact that Dorahy played at full back and stand off during a spell at the Boulevard . |
| 2 | MARILLION singer Steve Hogarth was left red-faced when a fan tried to rip his trousers off during a sell-out show . |
| 3 | The public impression was that seamen had become substantially worse off during a period in which real wages fell by at least 4% . |
| 4 | They can be so noisy that they are often switched off during an autopsy , increasing the level of air pollution and the risk of acquisition of air-borne infections . |
| 5 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 6 | It sprang down off her lap and prowled off through a flower bed . |
| 7 | This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices . |
| 8 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 9 | Once pasta is cooked , strain water off through a colander and , using the same pan , add two to three tablespoons of olive oil ; heat the oil and drop in one to two tablespoons of pesto . |
| 10 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 11 | She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door . |
| 12 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied , but she was grateful to him that he did not hurry her but allowed her to look her fill before they set off through a pathway of more trees and green parkland . |
| 13 | Sailing as corporate hospitality took off about a decade ago , with companies looking for a new way of hosting events . |
| 14 | Then someone tipped me off about a US material used for bow and kite strings . ’ |
| 15 | He was pissed off about a cameraman who kept stalking his every move ; filming for use on the large video screens positioned on either side of the stage . |
| 16 | Part of the cathedral had been roped off as a theatre , a very Sussex touch . |
| 17 | It might be interesting ; he was obviously intelligent and well-educated , and the fact that both Dora and Iris had written him off as a fortune-hunter caused her no particular misgivings . |
| 18 | It started off as a laugh , but has become a job to me . |
| 19 | With sterling out of Europe 's exchange-rate mechanism , Britons tend to write this off as a pipe-dream . |
| 20 | Although it started off as a school project , the spider catcher has attracted alot of outside interest . |
| 21 | Seedlings of Platypodium elegans ( Leguminosae ) also in central America die of damping off as a function of distance from the mother in their first year , when the mortality rate can be up to 81% . |
| 22 | It starts off as a satire of Pennebaker 's Dylan doc Do n't Look Back and — cut to the pace of Roberts ' twangy crap folk songs — also attacks Saturday Night Live , rock ‘ n ’ roll , right-wingers , and stupid people . |
| 23 | Started off as a flower . |
| 24 | It started off as a flower . |
| 25 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 26 | Dressed , Dawn could be passed off as a member of the audience . |
| 27 | He did not start off as a rebel seeking out Peripatetics to confound . |
| 28 | I do not accept either the Right-wing proposition that we need only to make the country better off as a whole without making any special effort in the inner cities . ’ |
| 29 | A banker 's acceptance starts off as a bill of exchange , which is itself a form of IOU . |
| 30 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |