Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] off into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 2 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 3 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 4 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 5 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 6 | Not to mention every day of the week when you climb on that evil machine and ride off into the sunset ! ’ |
| 7 | His foot struck a cassette-player that skittered off into the darkness . |
| 8 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 9 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 10 | Then she yawned , blinked , turned her back and walked off into the house . |
| 11 | Its heroes do not characteristically commit suicide or ride off into the sunset : they settle down , marry , and make comfortable and elaborate treaties with the world they live in . |
| 12 | What is apt to happen when we strike a solid is that a whole series of stress waves radiate from the point of impact and move off into the body of the material . |
| 13 | I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind . |
| 14 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 15 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 16 | In terror , she lifted her skirts and ran off into the village , proclaiming loudly that ‘ the diel ’ was in Alloway kirk . |
| 17 | The first Phoenix King made no response , merely climbed onto the back of Indraugnir and flew off into the dreadful night . |
| 18 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 19 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 20 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 21 | He put down his glass of tea , lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris . |
| 22 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 23 | Here the strange , tilted cliffs of the Corniche begin , layers of schist or of limestone that slide off into the water at an angle of 45 degrees and there make starkly visible ridges on the seabed . |
| 24 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 25 | Picture them , Tabitha Jute and Marco Metz , as they walk out across the spaceport tarmac this chilly Schiaparelli evening , to climb aboard the not-quite-redeemed Alice and take off into the Martian sky , bound on a journey that will take them to Plenty — and far , far beyond . |
| 26 | The horses lose interest and sashay off into the night . |
| 27 | He doffed his hat and walked off into the mist . |
| 28 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |