Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 32 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 33 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 34 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 35 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 36 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 37 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 38 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |
| 39 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |
| 40 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 41 | Parents will no longer accept being fobbed off by the so-called experts . |
| 42 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 43 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 44 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 45 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 46 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 47 | 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 … |
| 48 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 49 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 50 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 51 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 52 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 53 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 54 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 55 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 56 | From then there would be seven hours of golf , from the moment the first pro drove off till the final putt dropped on the 18th green . |
| 57 | How can the Minister justify the attempt to sell off into the private sector , just a matter of weeks before a general election , what most Londoners rightly regard as the proper seat of London 's government ? |
| 58 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 59 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 60 | And you go out and do the same thing again and you 're getting le let off for the same thing all the time and you think you 're going to get away with it all the time . |