Example sentences of "off [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 2 | His vision of the future also included a reduction in university support services for authors ; fewer editors working on more books ; cheaper typesetting and data processing costs ; significantly reduced print runs ( ‘ I expect 50 copies will be considered a large run for some titles ’ ) ; electronic customer catalogues ; improved customer service ; a merging of the jobs of copy editor , designer and production controller ; and dramatically improved distribution ( ‘ the 10 minute book run off locally in the shop could soon be a reality ’ ) . |
| 3 | He usually also went off somewhere under the auspices of some ecologically minded group . |
| 4 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
| 5 | I always wore clogs , and if an iron came off while I was cycling to town I could take it to him , go off somewhere like the pictures , and it would be ready and waiting for me straight afterwards . |
| 6 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 7 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 8 | With the whole fleet converging on the first mark it can often get rather chaotic , as everyone is eager to blast off on to the reach . |
| 9 | Travelling along the island 's one main road and off on to the dusty tracks we were amazed at how friendly the locals were . |
| 10 | It 's silly things like that which get in the way of the actual show , so for the next series , I suggested a couch , low enough for me to put my arm over the back of it , but high enough to stop me sliding off on to the floor . |
| 11 | He turned off on to the taxiway and followed the green ‘ go ’ lights to a corner away from the main Terminal One . |
| 12 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 13 | Did she turn off on to the single track road across the valley , or take the easy option and drive on towards Villereal ? |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that we returned with an impression of economic chaos — and the impression that , although aid from this country and others is welcomed , it is feared that too much is being siphoned off on to the black market ? |
| 15 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 16 | In female flowers , the flies are wedged in tightly , the thorax pollen being rubbed off on to the stigma . |
| 17 | Mark set off downhill towards the Refuge d'Argentiere , 500 metres below us . |
| 18 | More positively , both the BFASS and most of its critics in England and Scotland , though not some of the more circumspect Scots abolitionists , sounded off powerfully against the Free Church 's financial reliance on southern slaveholders after its break from the Church of Scotland in 1843 . |
| 19 | In the past , many students were so petrified about stalling that they could not be persuaded to hold off properly for the landing . |
| 20 | Then they both got up and Rose walked off slowly towards the machines . |
| 21 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 22 | There was a brief impression of two men stumbling down the track as though they had been hit in the leg , while the man with the pinned arm , having broken the arrow that held him , hurtled off in to the undergrowth . |
| 23 | Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day , but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend . |
| 24 | The approaching host could not head directly for the town because of the suddenly-widening river-mouth , having to swing off somewhat to the left , westwards , to reach the Spittal or Town ford , the nearest crossing , whose natural shallows had been improved by an underwater causeway of stone slabs . |
| 25 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |
| 26 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 27 | then him and his mum got off along with the rest of the people what was the driver 's name ? |
| 28 | They all moved off together down the tawny dust of the road , close beside the shingle banks and black deeps of the river . |
| 29 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 30 | I had an image of them having it off together in the same building where I was . |