Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 2 | Supposing he did say goodbye to his commission , supposing he was selected , supposing he went off to Russia or Finland or wherever it was without even seeing her . |
| 3 | They went off in groups or individually to try three buttons . |
| 4 | Margery was rather fearful about disobeying her confessor , but Jesus assured her that he could overrule a priest , and she set off without money or luggage . |
| 5 | The technique , known as damascening , involved the addition of inlays of threads of silver and gold to bronze blades and hilts , and set off by patches or pools of black enamel ; the designs depicted hunting scenes ( Figure 10 ) . |