Example sentences of "[verb] off [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lynagh , helped off just before the interval , failed to score for the first time in 60 Tests , but new goal-kicker Marty Roebuck was cool as he amassed 17 points from three penalties and four conversions . |
| 2 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 3 | We 'll take them out and throw them away and that 's all within the maker of the er , of the wings , er take them out , throw them away , er take the bumper off , throw that away , right , get a new number plate , a new bumper right cos the bumper 's got to come off anyway with the wings |
| 4 | But it 's a Rozario 's got to come off now at the moment he 's just er a big sums it up there . |
| 5 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 6 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 7 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 8 | One Saturday morning , without telling anyone of my plan , I boarded a bus and headed off out of the Lesotho capital of Maseru and towards Roma where I knew a witchdoctor lived . |
| 9 | Heart attack victim Jeff , 72 , planned his send off down to the last detail . |
| 10 | I do not mean to stray off here into the history of the Basques ; all Pyrenean history is complicated , that of the Basques very complicated . |
| 11 | Chuck hesitated as his father moved off unsteadily towards the thicket , and at that moment Devraux and the Moi trackers entered the glade . |
| 12 | The basket moved off back to the mainland . |
| 13 | They all moved off together down the tawny dust of the road , close beside the shingle banks and black deeps of the river . |
| 14 | The picture on the last page shows the father walking off alone along the darkening street , leaving the brightly lit house behind him . |
| 15 | A boy who used to wander off alone into the tall trees which threatened the village and , as though in insolent reminder of their dominance , sent long poking fingers of animated shrub foraging between the dumpy houses , the stone chapel and the corrugated band hot . |
| 16 | The few that did live near the quarry tended to wander off hurriedly in the opposite direction whenever they saw a nome . |
| 17 | If you would like to know more about the people and processes that keep water running for you 24 hours a day , why not send off now for the comprehensive free brochure below . |
| 18 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 19 | I came off well in the area of sweet coupons , too . |
| 20 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 21 | Seaman badly bruised a hip and came off early in the second half last weekend but has received extensive treatment . |
| 22 | So why was it Ms Aloni and not Mr Deri who came off worse in the latest scuffle ? |
| 23 | They come down on to the ground and immediately their wings break off close to the thorax . |
| 24 | Using a small hammer the needles were then tapped through these holes and then cut off flush with the exterior of the pipe . |
| 25 | A beggar , his face covered in sores , his legs cut off just beneath the knees , scampered about on wooden crutches . |
| 26 | IN my opinion the loveliest of all the dales , Dentdale is also the most secluded , cut off both by the hills which hem its stern and western ends and by the narrowness of the roads that lead in and out of it . |
| 27 | Then they could follow Hess by phone , and Carrington could head off immediately to the spot where he 'd ‘ kissed the deck ’ to make sure some Home Guard maniac did n't put a bullet in him . |
| 28 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 29 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |
| 30 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |