Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 5.15 she 's in the canteen where she works until 7.15 when she clocks off to go home and get her children to school . |
| 2 | Gardiner heads off to ban in good mood |
| 3 | It becomes increasingly ill at ease until eventually the din and the intrusions become too much for it and it flaps off to find a quieter spot somewhere else . |
| 4 | But he stomps off to have a think now and then . |
| 5 | If the female is of a different species , she emits a buzz and the male flies off to try his luck elsewhere . |
| 6 | After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . |
| 7 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 8 | These are all justified by the dramatic context Orpheus 's happiness as he sings to the shepherds , his effort to impress Charon , his triumph as he marches off to fetch Eurydice — but they also gave the audience music to remember . |
| 9 | The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 12 | Left alone , the dominant male mates with the female who then goes off to lay two eggs and rear her young alone . |
| 13 | Remember in the evening when your ‘ little horror ’ goes off to sleep that tomorrow you will be with them through all the trials and tribulations and can be there to soothe their pains and congratulate their achievements . |
| 14 | The second is if the child goes off to sleep . |
| 15 | It seems that every now and again the memory gets so disorganised that Windows goes off to do something about it and hence the frightening silence . |
| 16 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 17 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 18 | well it starts off + um + an owl + comes into his shop + and there 's + just the counter + with a till and + a few + bottles an' um + pots of jam on it + an' he um + inspects the counter + an' + sort of ‘ tut-tut 's 'cos it 's + dusty + an ’ goes off to get um + a small + sweeping brush an' sort of + cleans it up + an' then decides to move + um + the display over from + one side + over to the other … |
| 19 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 20 | So the girl is in on this , the artist and he goes off to meet this er bride-to-be at the airport and she comes in , perfectly , she looks like a model off of , off of Vogue , he practically drops dead of course . |
| 21 | The foreword says ‘ A sad story with a happy ending ’ , and it 's about a little baby who has no Mummy and so goes off to find one . |
| 22 | He describes what happens after a typical Russian business deal : ‘ One man goes off to find the goods and the other to find the money . |
| 23 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 24 | Once she has capitulated and goes off to gain her daughter 's assent he switches faces , turning to us in the middle of a line : ‘ Bear her my true love 's kiss ; and so , farewell/Relenting fool , and shallow-changing woman ! ’ ( 431–2 ) . |
| 25 | She trips off to view the fashion show . |
| 26 | She is a body in a room ; she is the room ; her head takes off to become a camera snapping and exposing the million thoughts flashing through her brain every second . |
| 27 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 28 | Full year losses are bigger at DEC as Alpha gets off to slow start . |
| 29 | At least half an hour goes by before the laibon breaks off to welcome the returning cattle . |
| 30 | She breaks off to focus on Karen Mulder , a voluptuous streak in skin-tight Alaia , with a dozen red rollers in her blonde hair . |