Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday 's players are still furious over the controversial refereeing that saw striker David Hirst sent off in the 3–1 first leg defeat in Kaiserslautern . |
| 2 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 3 | Then Dr Livesey hurried off into the wood . |
| 4 | ’ You could hardly expect Portia Forbes to start off in the typing pool . ’ |
| 5 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |
| 6 | Hooves sounded loud in the yard as Colonel Winckler took off after the Prince . |
| 7 | Mr Kettering going off without the dog and his wife bringing it round to you — it all seems a bit odd if it 's so devoted to him . ’ |
| 8 | Dressed in silk and ablaze with jewellery , apparently to prove that Donna 's inheritance was no myth , Mavis Bricknell stumbled off towards the toilet room at the dome car 's entrance saying she must repair the ravages to her face , and presently she came back , screaming loudly . |
| 9 | The Pakistani authorities banned the proposed protest on Feb. 6 , and on Feb. 7 deployed 40,000 security personnel along the border and blockaded roads in and out of the Azad Kashmir capital of Muzaffarabad ; nevertheless , 7,000 JKLF supporters set off from the city on Feb. 11 . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr. Gould went off in the morning to the Acteon [ sic ] Islands , which are about a mile distant from each other and at the distance of about 3 or 4 miles from Research Bay . |
| 11 | Robert Blackaby rounded off for the boys with a good fourth place in the junior 100m freestyle . |
| 12 | There was also mild throat-clearing as Mr Major strode off towards the largest car ferry in Europe with the words : ‘ Let's go and look at this boat ! ’ |
| 13 | Leonora nodded dumbly , wishing the subject had never come up , as Penry Vaughan strode off to the kitchen . |
| 14 | Mr Wishart hurried off to the refreshment room , luckily got served straight away and with difficulty got back to the compartment just as the guard was blowing his whistle ; the old lady took one of the paper cups of tea and murmured her thanks . |
| 15 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 16 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 17 | At last Mrs Fry went off round the corner to our house . |
| 18 | Swindon Robins take off at the Abbey Stadium against Exeter … |
| 19 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |
| 20 | Mike Tunnell walked off with the prized possession of a wooden spoon . |
| 21 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 22 | In keeping with the book 's leitmotif , however , let's ignore all that and focus instead on the rich images of Lamb in shock at the lunch interval after weathering 22 bouncers among the preceding 24 balls ; of Dexter losing interest after fielding all day in 90 degrees at Karachi ; of the normally taciturn Peter May sounding off about the regime which followed him as chairman of selectors ; of the ‘ terror of spin ’ and the West Indian ‘ throat-theory ’ reign of terror , attributed in part to the meatiness of their backsides . |
| 23 | GOING : Bungy-jumping Mirrorman Wigmore takes off from the cradle 200 ft up |
| 24 | St Helens ' new county champion Greg Helsby leads off in the singles and Raife Hutt of Southport & Ainsdale is back in the side . |
| 25 | Two miles into the hills , the track to Shenavall bothy goes off to the right . |
| 26 | Later , when I was a city detective in the early 1960s , we again used clothing to mark off our separation and dirty , ragged tramps shuffling off to shelter in rubble-filled dens under the Tyne Bridge would become a referent to our despised neighbours : ‘ look [ we would point ] there 's a Gateshead detective hurrying off on the scent … |
| 27 | ‘ He was kind to look after me after you and Maria Luisa ran off into the sunset but … but the old magic was n't there . ’ |
| 28 | Police gave no details but it appeared Mr Anderson fell dying with gunshot wounds , and the Ford Capri car sped off with the gunman and Ms Fisher inside . |
| 29 | From the village centre , the Thornton road descends sharply initially and when it levels , a side road called Oddies Lane turns off to the right . |
| 30 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |