Example sentences of "off and [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1991 , however , there was some evidence that land prices had levelled off and had even begun to fall . |
| 2 | He was well off and had therefore no difficulty in accomplishing this . |
| 3 | The broken fringes of grass were lifted off and stacked well out of the way , the spades began to clear the ground downwards from the arc of russet brickwork , warily because of sinister little trickles of loose earth that drifted down the slope at every movement . |
| 4 | He re-entered the domain of ploughed land , far off and spreading endlessly like a sea , with furrows instead of waves . |
| 5 | More dry lather flew off and drifted away . |
| 6 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
| 7 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 8 | Often , dogs that run off and stay just out of distance can be discouraged from this habit when the owner hides . |
| 9 | ‘ The handles are muddy , but they havena' broken it , and — ’ She broke off and looked sharply across the quarry , over which a faint shout had come . |
| 10 | ‘ All these years , Dad , I believed I 'd actually got some roots of my own , roots in this family , even a natural father in New Zealand — ’ She broke off and looked questioningly at her father . |
| 11 | He rang off and stared gloomily at the phone . |
| 12 | There 'd be other people come and had we 'd show them round the darkroom and teach them how to print , how to take pictures , and as soon as they knew how to do that , they 'd fall off and go away . |
| 13 | But he 's not the sort of person that 'll say ah yeah we 've been doing this for a little while , why do n't we just take off and go somewhere and fuck it , fuck it , let's just go and do something together he 's the sort of person that they would settle down into this safe little life and , which would n't actually be that safe for Vanessa , it 'd be very very you know , much what Dangerous wants to do . |
| 14 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 15 | If I switch off and wait about three minutes , she 'll fire up perfectly and carry on sometimes ten miles further , sometimes fifty until the problem starts again . |
| 16 | A liquidator was called in on March 25 1905 , and finally in the August all 600 men ( at the company 's height it had employed 800 ) were paid off and sent home . |
| 17 | Most times the squadron took off and returned safely , and gradually the life at Bourn changed . |
| 18 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 19 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 20 | If the ‘ hold ’ is set to give a safe idle , there should still be plenty of time to switch it off and recover even if you make a complete mess of things . |
| 21 | Those particular shackles have been torn off and tossed aside . ’ |
| 22 | Clutching it protectively in front of her , she stared in dry-mouthed terror at a very tall , dark , athletic-looking man , clad in a lightweight beige suit , with the jacket off and slung carelessly over his shoulder , suspended on one negligent finger . |
| 23 | Now get up , stop showing off and go home , please ! ’ |
| 24 | After an hour 's careful work , the designer found ( to his dismay ) that one brand of lacquer caused all the lettering to lift off and float merrily across the case ! |
| 25 | But he shook it off and came forward again . |
| 26 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 27 | So , we when packed off and went somewhere else , do you see ? |
| 28 | He started , as he had intended , from where the last interview had left off and went quickly over the ground again . |
| 29 | I ran off and drove away in the car . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh no , ’ said Meredith , remembering the photograph of the three little girls , ‘ She's- ’ She broke off and finished meekly , ‘ She 's probably very nice . ’ |