Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 2 | A man like this would not rise at dawn , hurry off to work , and return home hours later , weary and exhausted . |
| 3 | Hurry off for the bran . |
| 4 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 5 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 6 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 7 | Right , if we erm , nip off to Tesco 's now , what 's the time , half past ten are we going to go into Tesco 's now Charlotte and have a ride in the trolley ? |
| 8 | The difficult part about this one is that people all have odd shaped heads , now and you find that if you put them on too high they squidge off like that , and you 've got to think of bandaging an egg basically , if you had an egg with a little hole in one end and you 've got to put a bandage round you 'd have to put it very carefully round the widest bit would n't you for it to stay firm and that 's the secret , everyone 's heads different and as you put it round you 've got to see where you can get it , where , sometimes it 's over the ears , sometimes it 's above the ears according to the peoples ' shaped , different shaped heads everyone 's different , anything else ? |
| 9 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 10 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 11 | Upon receiving names they fly off into orbit , and return one by one during the course of the first part of the novel to be given ‘ rebirth ’ by Someone . |
| 12 | But then they fly off to Stockholm and have a couple of drinks . |
| 13 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 14 | You can take a cruise down the Nile , fly off to sun-drenched Barbados or choose any holiday you wish . |
| 15 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 16 | The couple fly off for what appears to be an ideal honeymoon in the Mediterranean . |
| 17 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 18 | Why do the starlings in my garden pull up stalks of marjoram and fly off with them ? |
| 19 | Many of these mature offspring of the root form work their way to the surface and those which are winged fly off in search of new vines . |
| 20 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 21 | and fly off in a shower , airily |
| 22 | To set your foundation and eliminate any shine , pat loose powder lightly all over your face and dust off with a big brush . |
| 23 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 24 | Take the car down to Dover first thing on Friday morning , then head off into France . |
| 25 | We all head off into the bloody storm , and then this whole horror comic gets sorted out when we 're back in the real world . |
| 26 | Coyne will be fully recovered by the time The Godfathers head off for European and American dates by the end of the month , but the British dates can not be rescheduled until early autumn . |
| 27 | ‘ Embarking on a musical journey , we head off for say , a dinosaur forest . |
| 28 | There 's a rigourous routine of hard practice before the party from the Dragon School in Oxford head off for the African continent . |
| 29 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 30 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |