Example sentences of "[adj] [v-ing] off of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next afternoon , then , they set off , a cheerful host , for this was the sort of venture that appealed to most , not any long campaign or set warfare but a raid , a dash into enemy territory , a showing of the flag , a swift paying off of old scores — and with the prospect of booty . |
| 2 | If one is a woman one is often surprised by a sudden splitting off of consciousness , say in walking down Whitehall , when from being the natural inheritor of that civilisation , she becomes , on the contrary , outside of it , alien and critical . |
| 3 | The danger is of a breakdown , in the disorientation of excess of information , the compass needle going wild as multiple pulls drag it hither and thither , and then a self-defensive shutting off of information and lapse into irrationalism . |
| 4 | The sporadic shutting off of town centres by selective use of barriers is already under way to stop the bombers . |
| 5 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |