Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] off with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 2 | Oxfordshire and west Buckinghamshire beginning to ease off with the rush hour traffic at the moment , not too bad at all at the moment . |
| 3 | Yesterday , Darlington prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate Alan Milburn claimed his party 's lobbying of Durham County Council had paid off with the offer of extra places . |
| 4 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 5 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 6 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 7 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 8 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 9 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 10 | She had confided this to Liz in a tearful moment , not long after Jonathan had run off with the Williams girl . |
| 11 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |