Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Western experts were soon jetting off to poor countries to run surveys and design massive family planning programmes . |
| 2 | Other Companies of the Battalion were already moving off in time to take their appropriate places in the March Table . |
| 3 | Scott was already stalking off up the road . |
| 4 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 5 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 6 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 7 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm terribly sorry , ’ Angela apologised to Jessica , who was just hurrying off to her Patrol meeting . |
| 9 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 10 | He came with the party , and halfway through the visit he was still showing off for his fans and being mildly provocative towards all authority . |
| 11 | Anglo-American Corporation announced on Nov. 11 that it was temporarily laying off between 4,000 and 5,000 workers without pay as part of its efforts to defuse tensions at the mine . |
| 12 | ‘ Speedie had hold of him by the neck , he was really mouthing off at him , ’ said one fan . |
| 13 | But like , he was really sounding off at Joe ! |
| 14 | The gloss of reconstructed masculinity , carefully polished through the 1970s , was now peeling off like old paint . |
| 15 | The ethics may appear questionable to present day conservationists , but it may be said in defence that the trip was made with the knowledge of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , whose observations at that time showed that there was no falling off in the numbers of breeding birds as a result of the annual slaughter . |