Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain . |
| 2 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 3 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 4 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | Wash your cans up erm and er and then they 'd go and finish off in the corn fields . |