Example sentences of "men [vb base] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We talk a little more , about the eider ducks and the weather , then the two men ride off . |
| 3 | On the night of the attack , Jordan and Corporal Bourmont each with four men set off to raid the two airfields at Derna . |
| 4 | Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town . |
| 5 | The men set off in fear and trepidation , singing and whistling to bolster their courage . |
| 6 | The three men set off again in the Sunbeam , touring the stores of Ruislip and Eastcote , making purchases with their newly acquired Barclaycard . |
| 7 | The two men set off down a narrow path which traversed the slope diagonally . |
| 8 | Some women are n't obsessed with the shirts their partners wear , and are n't utterly downcast if their men go off to play sports . |
| 9 | But other young men go off and capture the fleeing Little creature , and soon bring it back , unharmed , to the boy . |
| 10 | Add on VAT at 17.5 per cent and the revenue men siphon off £1.34 ; 67 per cent of the average pump price of £1.95 . |
| 11 | The men slope off , looking ashamed of themselves ( doing it for money like that ) . |
| 12 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |
| 13 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 14 | Then the young boys and some of the men split off , leading their dogs on chains up a steep animal track that climbed straight to the heart of the forest . |