Example sentences of "off into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guy took the main road out of town , and then turned off into narrow , winding , leaf-fringed lanes until they were deep in the unique peace of the Cotswold countryside . |
| 2 | The children were dividing themselves off into small groups . |
| 3 | Otherwise they are syphoned off into mysterious Liechtenstein trusts , or are invested in companies whose identities are kept secret . |
| 4 | Drift off into other new babies , d' you mean , or daffodils , or wireworms ? |
| 5 | He looked like he 'd take off into outer space with animation . |
| 6 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 7 | Vigilance is certainly required that funding allocated for the public good should not be siphoned off into private firms . |
| 8 | The smaller English house does not steer a straight and obvious course of architectural style , but veers off into strange and pleasurable directions like that of ‘ Strawberry Hill ’ Gothic or Victorian ‘ Queen Anne ’ . |
| 9 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 10 | And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos . |
| 11 | Oh I mean I do n't want it to be a party where everybody goes off into different rooms , you know ? |
| 12 | At this point , as often happened , his thoughts wandered off into irrelevant philosophical channels . |
| 13 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 14 | At the moment , when we should be integrating our elderly into community life and reintegrating them into our families , we are sending them off into social exile . |
| 15 | Let Trudi Pacter 's latest book sweep you off into high society |
| 16 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 17 | Amelia 's sentence trailed off into empty air . |
| 18 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 19 | Either way you are bound to drift off into unconnected chains of thought , which does n't matter a bit . |
| 20 | Her thin voice trailed off into thin air , leaving its faint warning of damage , dirt , even theft . |
| 21 | To start with , he generally studied the objects in his still lifes from slightly above eye-level , so that the spectator sees them in their most informative aspect ; this high viewpoint was probably assumed largely in order to limit the pictorial depth and ensure the unity of the picture surface in so far as that looking downwards on to the subject one 's eye is not allowed to wander off into limitless space . |