The young man reached out to break off one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

But then they shut themselves off one second later.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Beatrice gently broke off one of the largest flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Skiing in just his seventh-career World Cup race, Weibrecht pulled off one of the most exhilarating Alpine runs in recent memory.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Store employee Brian McLelland snaps the arm off one faceless figure and rearranges its black t-shirt.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

He came off the ship Excelsior in San Francisco with one hundred thirty thousand dollars worth of gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

"I have kept my mom off of Facebook. She wants one, I said 'No,you can't have one.'

VOA: special.2009.09.14

One shows the remains of a dying star four thousand light years away which has thrown off a cloud of glowing hydrogen gas.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

One of them took hold of my arm. He shook me and lifted me off the ground.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

For the fourth year, people are being urged to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the issue of climate change.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Niles Anderson came off the ship Portland with one hundred twelve thousand dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

The lights will stay off for one hour for an event called Earth Hour.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

To earn the one hundred thirty thousand dollars that Clarence Berry took off the ship, that man would have had to work for two hundred fifty years!

VOA: special.2009.02.04