Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 2 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 4 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 5 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 6 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 7 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 8 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 9 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 10 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 11 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 12 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 13 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 14 | Swiss housewives rejected this appeal , apparently put off by the idea of being replaced in their homes by machines . |
| 15 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 16 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 17 | Similarly the " stopping rate " is the maximum stepping rate which can be suddenly switched off without the motor overshooting the target position . |
| 18 | this is a clean and neat move , nicely capped off with the gentle finish to the summit . |
| 19 | However , the imminent arrival of the railway was foreshadowed by an appearance of a spectral train whose large black locomotive was seen rushing along the lonely Highland road with headlights blazing before suddenly veering off into the hills . |
| 20 | So loaded off of the train . |
| 21 | Gordon John Sinclair is Gregory , a gangling , amiable misfit who falls in love with Dee Hepburn but eventually cops off with the infinitely more desirable Clare Grogan on a balmy evening in East Kilbride — which looks like heaven . |
| 22 | Police in Cam gave chase for a short distance but were easily shaken off by the robbers stolen Sierra Cosworth . |
| 23 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 26 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 27 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 28 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 29 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 30 | Well it 's quite fun just going off for the odd day cos then he goes off to see Ian , he enjoys that but it was two afternoons last week cos I did Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon |