Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | onto the sand here in Bay and then there seven site or plod laid off for every plougher that was there you see ? |
| 2 | The problem is , as each head hits the ground it bursts into a thousand little crabs that go skittering off into the far reaches of my body . |
| 3 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 4 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 5 | Something of all that had rubbed off on Zeinab , although Zeinab was Nuri 's daughter only by a slave girl , a well-known courtesan , who had had mind enough of her own to refuse to join Nuri 's harem . |
| 6 | And that one that had wandered off from the rest it became aware that it was lost . |
| 7 | Yesterday Brown , 19 , of Corder Road , Middlesbrough , appeared before Teesside magistrates and admitted making off without payment . |
| 8 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 9 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 10 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 11 | ‘ Bonaparte 's got no stomach for the fight : knows we 're too strong for him , and has cleared off under cover of the mist . ’ |
| 12 | Hue and Cry jet off to Sigma Sound , NYC , to work with Jimmy Biondolillo ( Sinatra 's strings arranger ) and the horn section James Brown used for Living in America . |
| 13 | When the end of a glass rod is heated in a flame the glass softens and tends to round off into a blob because surface tension remains active long after permanent mechanical resistance to deformation has disappeared . |
| 14 | ’ There is a danger of people perceiving you as Mr Cause and getting pissed off with you turning up yet again ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 16 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 17 | She straightened up and began ticking off on her fingers . |
| 18 | They help to unblock pores , breaking down the plug of oil and debris , penetrating into the pore to kill bacteria and reduce inflammation , and encourage flaking off of dead skin cells . |
| 19 | For some reason they ignore these hygienic delights and go padding off to some stagnant puddle to lap up the filthy water there . |
| 20 | And yet the longing to break out , to do the sudden impetuous thing , to drop everything and go running off to New York was suddenly irresistible . |
| 21 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 22 | At last I said , " Let's talk about it tomorrow , " and he nodded happily and went padding off to work . |
| 23 | There were several hundred birds and , because we had rounded a corner and surprised them , they panicked and went rushing off in a tight bunch , making an accurate count impossible . |
| 24 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 25 | He admits he was extravagant as a young man , and liked to show off by over-tipping the ferryman . |
| 26 | HOW ridiculous of Prime Minister Major 's son James to flare up and get sent off in a public school friendly football match . |
| 27 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 28 | He and Charlotte had grown tired of the undertaking business and had set off to London to start a new life — with all the money from Mr Sowerberry 's shop in their pockets . |
| 29 | When he retired from the RAF he remained a most active civilian doctor on the staff at Halton and continued to rush off with the ‘ go-team ’ in response to any call from the AIB duty co-ordinator for some years afterwards . |
| 30 | His beleaguered , sexless pseudo-intellectual made rewarding cut-price TV ( no better than when played off Sid James ’ superb guffawing spiv ) , and continued paying off for five years , seven BBC series , abut four key sackings by the Great Man , and at least 500 better gags than the ‘ armful ’ one . |