Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , Darlington prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate Alan Milburn claimed his party 's lobbying of Durham County Council had paid off with the offer of extra places . |
| 2 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 3 | Almost exactly a year later , a bomb did go off in the basement car park during the evening rush hour , causing many minor casualties , and about £350m in damage , about ten per cent of which was ultimately reinsured in the London market . |
| 4 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 5 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 6 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
| 7 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 8 | Hugh asked after his father-in-law had wandered off into the shadows at the end of the terrace and they heard his stick tapping along the stone floors . |
| 9 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 10 | The Baron had been the Prince 's tutor at Oxford and was living proof to Sharpe that most education was a waste of effort , for none of Rebecque 's modest good sense had rubbed off on the Prince . |
| 11 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 12 | The excitement died away and the crowd began to drift off down the side streets . |
| 13 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 14 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 15 | Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain . |
| 16 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 17 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 18 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 19 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 20 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 21 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 22 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 23 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |