Example sentences of "[verb] off again [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 2 | The questions rose to a clamour , but no-one stood in the way as Sergeant Bird smoothly drove off again with a regretful shake of his head . |
| 3 | They set off again at a stately pace . |
| 4 | Narrow staircases , infested with mouse droppings , where those who had no money whatsoever huddled on the steps for shelter , coming like wraiths in the night when they were less likely to be turned away , and drifting off again in the early morning . |
| 5 | The figure stopped , turned towards , him and snarled something before moving off again at the same queer , shambling gait . |
| 6 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 7 | After his experiences photographing there , he found it very difficult to continue the rather dull life of a colonial portraitist , and soon set off again for the strange and exotic land of Siam . |
| 8 | We got on , and started off again through the lonely night , in pitch darkness , not a house or a lantern to be seen . |
| 9 | She 'd doze off again with the little one curled like a cat between her stomach and arm . |
| 10 | The ‘ speeder set off again with a renewed sense of purpose . |