Example sentences of "[v-ing] off [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , Ill be signing off now in a CRAPPY SHEFF UTD sort of way . |
| 2 | He collapsed by the roadside after wandering off alone in a daze and died hours later in intensive care . |
| 3 | Feeling rather uncomfortably damp and dirty , she set off again , turning off presently into a deep wood , through which a footpath led to the deer-park and then on to Granny Fordham 's cottage . |
| 4 | Really she was getting off lightly with a few glasses of bleach . |
| 5 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 6 | On each side a wide staircase led up in six zigzag sections , breaking off abruptly on an open landing about twenty metres above the ground . |
| 7 | In the first years of the twenties Boulestin had been dabbling , in a small way , in picture dealing , starting off promisingly with a Modigliani bought in Paris for £12 and sold in London for £90 . |
| 8 | It was almost thirty minutes since he 'd made the phone call , stopping off quickly at a payphone before swinging the car off the main road and into Paddington Recreation Ground . |