Example sentences of "off at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 2 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 3 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 4 | Yet again , a piece of the family silver is being sold off at rock-bottom price , at great — |
| 5 | it does n't , it does n't matter what barrelage you put through it but put , as long as we know that er , the fifteen thou it 's gon na be written off at thirty pound a barrel , so the sooner you , you do it , the sooner it 's written off . |
| 6 | I crawled out into the alley and it was one of those blind alleys , y'know , blocked off at one end , so I had no way out . |
| 7 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 8 | On the new album , Bring it on Home to Me stands out : mean Tyneside vocals and Irish pipes gloriously underpin the moody soul structures of Sam Cooke 's classic , the pipes taking off at one point as if on a Claptonesque guitar solo . |
| 9 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 10 | so it just shows you , it started off at one pound twenty on the meter that was |
| 11 | It came off at one stage . |
| 12 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 13 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |
| 14 | When you 'd done your thirty years , you 'd go off at two-thirds pension . |
| 15 | I 'm only gon na get it four foot deep with it anyway it would n't be four foot deep all over , it 'll start off at two foot and then slightly slope down to the deep part |
| 16 | It was decided that unless they got word of a change in direction from the scouts the Regent had sent to follow the enemy 's route , the Scots host , now numbering some thirteen thousand , would set off at first light , south-westwards , on a converging course . |
| 17 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 18 | Rogers and Lambert took off at first light to see what was happening . |
| 19 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 20 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 21 | For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach . |
| 22 | Twice I came off at that spot . |
| 23 | As there was very little chance of her being got off at that season she was advertised for sale . |
| 24 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 25 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 26 | The dark a long way off at each end of the day |
| 27 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 28 | But it is so vindictively cold in this ill-lit room , and my alabaster hand aches so much from the thousands of words I have put down on this unhappy day , and my head still throbs , and my stomach is so empty , and my grief is so heavy , that I think it would be wise of me to break off at this point , this hinge , blow out the once again guttering candle and for the third time today go down the stone stairs to streets where it is always February . |
| 29 | Breeze , who was reading the letter aloud — it was addressed jointly to Gay and herself — broke off at this point and frowned . |
| 30 | The temptation for teachers to cut off at this point and move on to something easier and less controversial is great , but the real value of RE lies in following the development through . |