Example sentences of "[verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 2 | Dave Weatherley strips off in the line of duty to put seven seriously warm bags to the test . |
| 3 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 4 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 5 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 6 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 7 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 8 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 9 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 10 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 11 | Watch that brickwork dry off in the sun , it 'll be as pale as the arch , here , in ten minutes . |
| 12 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 13 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 15 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 16 | it does n't fall off in the soup , it never falls off , it 's only the ones you see on the advertisements that fall off . |
| 17 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 18 | It 's a weird thing erm it starts off in the root and then it erm u used a single mouse fix to patch it |
| 19 | Now , let's take the young activist , who starts off in the trade union movement . |
| 20 | Some have even kept their tattoos hidden from their children and have been reluctant to explain why they will not peel off in the sun . ’ |
| 21 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 22 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 23 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 24 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 25 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 26 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 27 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 28 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 29 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 30 | THE HARD ONS , raucous Australians on Vinyl Solution , stop off in the UK on their European tour visiting Birmingham Barrel Organ |