Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 2 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 3 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 4 | Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ? |
| 5 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 6 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 7 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 8 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 9 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 10 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 11 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 12 | The time-travellers manage to escape from the Aridians and take off in the TARDIS , but the Dalek time-ship is in hot pursuit . |
| 13 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |
| 14 | HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 16 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |