Example sentences of "off [conj] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was because , when her long beautiful legs were high in the air , her yellow garter flew off and fell down to the men below . |
| 2 | When he had gone , she turned the light off and lay back on the bed , still in her dress if not her knickers , staring at the ceiling . |
| 3 | The doctor switched it off and carried on with the work in hand . |
| 4 | But before it was consumed entirely , it lifted off and shot up towards the painstyled plaster of the ceiling . |
| 5 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 6 | The photographer got pissed off and went back to the paper and said they were uncooperative and really difficult , ’ says Houghton . |
| 7 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 8 | ‘ She met some guy in there that day , some guy she used to go with , and he must 've said something because the next thing anyone knew , she was screaming at him , Pete was in the bar the morning after , he said the window was all over the floor , apparently she 'd thrown an ashtray at the guy and it had missed and taken the whole window out instead , and when he took her by the arm and tried to calm her down , she shook him off and ran out of the bar , right out in the street , and like I said , it was the bottom of a hill and there was a truck coming — ‘ |
| 9 | Owen and Georgiades went a little way off and squatted down beneath the trees to wait . |
| 10 | On the far bank they might just discern the silhouette of a straining horse on the tow-path ; from nearby they might just hear a discreet splosh as the eel-fishermen cast off and slipped out into the stream . |
| 11 | He turned the fire off and sat down on the settee , looking at the woman all the while . |
| 12 | I managed to get my seat belt off and ducked down in the seat to get out of range of the gunshots . ’ |