Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 2 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 3 | Green Realignment 's independent existence got off to an uncertain start when one of the six members of its steering group , Lou Betts , announced that he had decided to rejoin the Green Party . |
| 4 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |
| 5 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 6 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 7 | The distribution of frequencies in this ‘ microwave background ’ is just like the distribution of frequencies given off by a hot gas . |
| 8 | The tenth case got off with a very stern reprimand from Matron and a very black mark against her name for the rest of her career . |
| 9 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 10 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 11 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 12 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 13 | The robbers described as Afro- Caribbean made off with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 14 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 15 | The grassy hillside steering you up on to the ridge starts off as a benign little stroll , until you realise it is going to continue forever . |
| 16 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 17 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 18 | The mammalian heart starts off as a straight tube and then bends , folds , and , together with further growth and subdivision , gives the four chambers that pump the blood . |
| 19 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 20 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 21 | Northamptonshire got off to a bad start against Derbyshire in the semi-finals of the Benson and Hedges cup . |
| 22 | On CEEFAX and TELETEXT it implied that Cuntona got off with the rap . |
| 23 | Tuesday kicks off with a champagne breakfast hosted by Dorling Kindersley . |
| 24 | While Durham Cricket Club got off to a resounding start , Sunderland brought a respectable gap between themselves and Division Three and Middlesbrough remained in contention for an automatic promotion spot , Newcastle moved into the bottom three of Division Two in remarkable circumstances . |
| 25 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 26 | When a guest checks in the receptionist allocates a room showing a green light ; he or she presses a switch and the green light goes off on the board as well as on the cashier 's and housekeeper 's boards . |
| 27 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 28 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 29 | A short distance up the road from the Hill Inn , a bridleway turns off to the right and , with Ingleborough looming directly in front , passes along an easy terrace to reach a gate in a cross-wall after half a mile . |
| 30 | Savanna animals cool off with a kind of organic radiator by evaporating water from the moist linings of the nasal chambers . |