Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] their [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 4 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 7 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 11 | The arrival of a female at the lek drives the males into a frenzy of display , with much showing off of their remarkable crests . |
| 12 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 13 | The worshippers headed off in their own directions , and the ordered chequerboard shattered . |
| 14 | Glaucous gulls and any other northern stragglers such as Iceland and perhaps ivory gulls will drift off towards their Arctic breeding-grounds . |
| 15 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |