Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The fuselage has broken off behind the pilot 's seat , the propeller shaft and gearing , having fallen away from the engine on impact , lie nearby . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
4 | The premium is either with the product or the purchaser has to send off for the premium . |
5 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
6 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
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 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
13 | That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet . |
14 | Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain . |
15 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The first ship date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target . |
18 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
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 . |