Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years of abundance in America began in 1950 with the defence expenditure triggered off by the Korean War , and the boom continued with only a hiccup or two of recession in 1954 and 1958 . |
| 2 | In other words , these are ritualised displays triggered off by the stimulus of ‘ predator-near-nest ’ . |
| 3 | But as the complex and delicate process unravelled , with hormones triggered off like the unlocking of a set of combination locks in a vast bank vault , it emerged how unlike a precious gem the ovum is . |
| 4 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 5 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 6 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 7 | So our hero stumped off down the yard and came across 4913 . |
| 8 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 9 | The small swimming pool is perfect for cooling off under the force of the midday sun , and the snack bar serves a great range of food into the early hours of the morning . |
| 10 | Willows and other small trees grew thickly on the banks of Lough Corrib , fenced off from the road . |
| 11 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I said , ‘ Get lost ’ , and pushed past him and staggered off down the corridor . |
| 13 | She struggled to her feet , her only thought to avoid discovery , and staggered off into the darkness . |
| 14 | The machine gun came free , and the children staggered off under the weight , certain of a huge price on the black market . |
| 15 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 16 | The power produced drops off as the harmonic number increases , so to generate the higher harmonics requires much higher input intensity . |
| 17 | WHAT is the protocol at a smart lunch when one 's neighbour drops off during the speeches ? |
| 18 | He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort . |
| 19 | Drinking at a pavement café on Ben Yehuda was for each of them a way of signing off from the mission . |
| 20 | ‘ You bolted off into the forest , ’ said Tommy , his eyes never leaving Trentham . |
| 21 | The other three turned and bolted off down the stairs . |
| 22 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 23 | The wife of the chief coiner however , being tipped off about the search had the stack of coins , the moulds and other equipment thrown into Rusland Pool . " |
| 24 | In the ensuing raid by our officers , who had been tipped off about the smuggling run , a pitched battle between our men and the smugglers had led to several amusing incidents , related to us by local officers . |
| 25 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |
| 26 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 27 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 28 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 29 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |