Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] off [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the guard strolls off to press the button . |
| 2 | But the putt slid past and the gallery headed off to witness the Salver 's first four-way decider and the emergence of a new force in Hants golf . |
| 3 | Kirov broke off to slip the Moskvich out of gear , allowing the van to cruise to a halt by the roadside . |
| 4 | Just the sight of the stamp had been enough to set her heart beating uneasily and she had to fight down the urge to put off reading the words someone had written to her . |
| 5 | Jack fired into the air and the dog left off chasing the sheep and ran towards the wood . |
| 6 | Armed with a lamp , Dyson set off to check the connection . |
| 7 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 8 | Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns . |
| 9 | Middle-ranking staff from Accounts go off to sample the city 's famously steamy nightclubs in the company of a bevy of angelic recorders . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mansell stormed off to see the stewards . |
| 12 | The hardest job of the ‘ Northern Lights Festival ’ on Radio 4 fell to Kaleidoscope in Greenland , where Paul Allen set off to examine the arts scene , heaven help him . |
| 13 | Theodora and the Major moved off to collect the horses from the loose boxes at the north end of the yard . |
| 14 | Stoddart broke off to watch the presentations and then continued : ‘ Happily , I still have the mare , who is now 18 . |
| 15 | We can sum up this discussion of exam questions with the following pieces of guidance ( in Chapter 5 , we consider in more detail how you actually write the passages which perform the functions we suggest here ) : * Write an introductory paragraph , but do n't use it as a way to put off answering the question . |
| 16 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 17 | The jogger ran off to call the Police . |
| 18 | Durham City meet Middlesbrough at Hollow Drift in another noon kick off to accommodate the France v England international . |
| 19 | Thereupon , Anselm went off to spend the summer months in the hill village of Liberi above Capua , and here he found a renewed peace of mind and spirit which he had not known since his days as prior of Bec . |
| 20 | Mr Beckenham left off patting the dog and looked quickly round at her , a frown creasing his brow . |
| 21 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |
| 22 | Rivers was warmly received by the dukes , but was arrested early the next morning before the party set off to join the prince . |