Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 2 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 4 | On a bright and chilly Saturday in November , Napier Alumni Golfing Society teed off with their inaugural meeting , at Gullane Golf Club . |
| 5 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 6 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 7 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 9 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 10 | Two more sections of the world-famous Dowty Group are being sold off by their new parent company . |
| 11 | As the recital proceeded , the teachers began to drift off to their appointed confessional boxes , anxious to miss , on any excuse , as much as possible of the headmaster 's address . |
| 12 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 13 | On Boxing Day most families set off for their main summer holiday , heading either for campsites in the bush or at the beach . |
| 14 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 15 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 16 | Charles and Di flew off for their third honeymoon this week . |
| 17 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 18 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 19 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 20 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 21 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 22 | Wednesday had David Hirst sent off in their 3–1 UEFA Cup reverse in Kaiserslautern a fortnight ago and manager Trevor Francis said : ‘ We felt unjustly treated after the first game , but tonight it was very fair and they deserved to go through . |
| 23 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 24 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 25 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 26 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 27 | It must be said that because , traditionally , psychology comes from a denial of spirit whoever goes into the process is cut off from their own light . |
| 28 | The arrival of a female at the lek drives the males into a frenzy of display , with much showing off of their remarkable crests . |
| 29 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 30 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |