Example sentences of "[adv] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 2 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 3 | He hooked badly off the second tee , was unplayable and took six . |
| 4 | Already I could see myself standing there , tongue-tied and grinning sheepishly , the star of a bedroom farce which had gone badly off the rails . |
| 5 | He hauls on one oar , and we spin deftly off the rock . |
| 6 | THE LENGTHS they 're prepared to go to , just to persuade Conservatives that there is a Europe out there , anchored somewhere off the coast of England . |
| 7 | Not bad for a rain-soaked island somewhere off the northern coast of Europe . |
| 8 | In photographs I 'm already scowling by the time I 'm two : in an Argyle Street photographer 's studio , clutching a rubber doll , dressed in a tailored coat with a velvet collar and an enormous bow in my hair ; or paddling with my parents in the sea , somewhere off the coast of Ireland . |
| 9 | They will meet somewhere off the side of the page . |
| 10 | But I knew that my island was somewhere off the coast of South America . |
| 11 | She felt guilty that she had not yet been to visit Miss Grimes in her bed-sitting room somewhere off the Finchley Road , really within easy distance of where she lived , so there was really no excuse . |
| 12 | The conversation was picked up from somewhere off the floor once dessert arrived and the three of them were talking again . |
| 13 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 14 | He had lost control on the wet surface and spun right off the track . |
| 15 | And I came right off the wave . ’ |
| 16 | On leaving Culworth turn right off the main leisure route and follow the signs to ‘ Sulgrave ’ . |
| 17 | Sergeant Bird watched fascinated while Frobisher diligently examined every vessel , finally dissecting them right off the base of the brain in order to see the other side . |
| 18 | I 'd just turned right off the B1 150 at Fairstead when I nearly crashed into the back of this unlit car skewed across the road . |
| 19 | Right off the bat , George Lynch , Warren DiMartini and Steve Vai all asked for my services . |
| 20 | Right off the bat Dan agreed , detailing this as the one criticism that had come back from American TriAxis users . |
| 21 | ‘ Jimi was playing in the rain and I stood right at the front of the stage and water dripped right off the tips of his boots onto my head . |
| 22 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 23 | IT 'S GONE right off the boil , armchair doctors of satire will inform you now . |
| 24 | It then reaches Sandy Lane , a metalled road , right off the B1269 , leading to New Marske . |
| 25 | Right Off the Lane at Hanging Houghton , fully worked preliminary pencil drawing for The Lane at Hanging Houghton , 15 ¼ × 16 ¼ in. ( 38.5 × 41 cm ) . |
| 26 | It came right off the middle and sailed over the fence , but it landed short of the window , hit a railing and bounced away . |
| 27 | Go left , up , use telescope , down , right , right , right , right , right , down , right , right , right , right , take shovel , up , left , get password , right , down , left , left , left , up , right , up , up , walk right off the right-hand star , get keycard , left , up , right , right , right , up , right , right , down , right , get mouse , left , left , left , left , up , right , up , up , walk right off the right-hand star , get keycard , left , up , right , right , right , up , right , right , down , right , get mouse , left , left , use shovel on boulders , down , right , use keycard on door , get mouse , walk into right wall , right , get stone , left , left , left , walk into first door . |
| 28 | Go left , up , use telescope , down , right , right , right , right , right , down , right , right , right , right , take shovel , up , left , get password , right , down , left , left , left , up , right , up , up , walk right off the right-hand star , get keycard , left , up , right , right , right , up , right , right , down , right , get mouse , left , left , left , left , up , right , up , up , walk right off the right-hand star , get keycard , left , up , right , right , right , up , right , right , down , right , get mouse , left , left , use shovel on boulders , down , right , use keycard on door , get mouse , walk into right wall , right , get stone , left , left , left , walk into first door . |
| 29 | I 'm right off the side of the bike so it takes much longer for me to get back on it and control the slide . ’ |
| 30 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |