Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The afternoon kicks off with a tour of the former Delorean complex including a trip around the original test track . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Clearly everyone was in festive mood despite the recession , and bidding got off to a brisk start : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 8 | Then the rider relaxed his legs , the horse moved off into a working trot , the rider rising so much at one with the animal that he in his turn appeared to be performing a piaffe . |
| 9 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 10 | The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go . |
| 11 | THE 1993 Historic Scotland Events Programme gets off to a dramatic start on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 May , with a major battle re-enactment by the Sealed Knot at Linlithgow Palace and Peel . |
| 12 | CLEVELAND athletes of the future get off to a flying start today with a new course at Cleveland stadium , Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | The groundswell in ‘ Chopin ’ is more urgent than usual , more truly agitato , the final march takes off at a cracking pace , and earlier Cortot , in common with Rachmaninov , includes ‘ Sphinxes ’ , a witty addition and an amusingly dour presence among the clowns and dreamers of Schumann 's masked ball . |
| 14 | The beleaguered club finished off without a ground , a reported £650,000 in debt and with only two registered players . |
| 15 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 16 | During the United Nations International Women 's Year in 1975 , the Salvadorean government spent more time and much more money on ensuring that the Miss Universe beauty contest went off without a hitch , than on debating the issues of discrimination against women . |
| 17 | The stuttering start , a last lap breakdown in Canada and the fiasco of Portugal , where his rear right wheel fell off after a pit stop , undermined his campaign . |
| 18 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 19 | The car sets off in a series of lurches across the gravel , for a moment blotting out , or perhaps silencing , the night life . |
| 20 | ‘ And the villagers let a complete stranger drive off with a machine that could play music from the future … ’ |
| 21 | During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell . |
| 22 | At least London 's Notting Hill Carnival got off to a trouble-free start . |
| 23 | Yale University 's $1.5 billion capital campaign got off to a spectacular start when philanthropist Paul Mellon donated gifts valued at more than $50 million . |
| 24 | The Committee got off to a brisk start at its first meeting . |
| 25 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 26 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 27 | Yes , I I think , in cer in in most cases that would happen , would n't it , if if if the child starts off with a feeling of insecurity , with possible instability . |
| 28 | An unborn child starts off as a tiny sphere , soon begins to look like a minute hamburger ( complete with bun ) , and finally adopts the form of a large-headed , small-limbed human being . |
| 29 | They believe that the operating system of a nome starts off as a goose . |
| 30 | The hard work payed off with a total of 36 units being sold . |