Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expense of necessary heating and drying is not only considerable , but is ultimately hopeless — it is not a tax which in any way augments a person 's living standards , but , like protection money , merely staves off for a little longer an absolute loss . |
| 2 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 3 | As the name suggests , the sole purpose of the group was to have fun , and perhaps show off to a few friends . |
| 4 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 5 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 6 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 7 | These remarkable flies with wasp-like markings hang motionless in the air — hence the name of hover fly — and suddenly shoot off to a different position ; their flight is a series of sudden darting movements . |
| 8 | A couple of bread rolls perhaps , a little plastic pack of butter and a pack of paté , nicely finished off with a plastic knife and a paper serviette . |
| 9 | His raving was suddenly choked off in a fit of agonised coughing by the stinging , acrid fumes of the gasoline which cascaded down over his head and shoulders , as Curtis upended the almost empty can and poured the dregs down over him . |
| 10 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 11 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
| 12 | Now he could see the world ranging round him , as it were , free , exciting and full of possibilities , neither limited by the encircling arms of Jesus , nor somehow squared off in a kind of boxing ring , with Marx , Engels , Lenin and Hegel fierce at every corner , barring all the exits . |
| 13 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 14 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
| 15 | His biggest regret , he said , was not signing off with a 34th try . |
| 16 | It would just fall off like a dust . |
| 17 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 18 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 19 | Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent . |
| 20 | The merger ‘ scramble ’ of l959–61 was largely sparked off by a bid by well-known takeover specialist Charles Clore for Watney Mann . |
| 21 | ‘ What members really want is to be got going again and not just towed off to a garage . |
| 22 | Just piss off to a nightclub , dear , come back in the wee small hours . |
| 23 | The pain the City is now feeling is too easily brushed off as a short-term punch in the stomach from the economy . |
| 24 | On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 . |
| 25 | We were determined not to start off with a mortgage round our necks if we could possibly avoid it . |
| 26 | Harriet 's voice had grown bleaker as she spoke and finally broke off on a clipped note of finality . |
| 27 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 28 | It just took off like a rocket from there . |
| 29 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 30 | You do n't have to remember any words or facts or anything difficult like that — you just go off in a sort of coma and think how wonderful you are . |