Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 2 | One morning we set off to find the primal mound where the world began . |
| 3 | The following day we set off to walk the Clear Creek trail which winds along the Colorado river , following a high gritstone outcrop about 1,640′ above it . |
| 4 | As our plans only allowed for one day on Mykines , we made the hølmur our main target , and after leaving our things in the empty house in which we had arranged to spend the night , we set off to follow the steep cliff path which leads to the bridge . |
| 5 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 6 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |
| 7 | In racing terms the going was good for the championships which were split into four age groups … in all of them the start was like a cavalry charge as they ran off to tackle the 6000 metre long course … the best local performance came in the girls race where Nicky Slater from carterton who runs in the Radley colours came second … |
| 8 | Why did Angelica Kauffman return so often to the image of Penelope , wife of Ulysses mother of Telemachus , who was abandoned by her husband when he went off to fight the Trojan Wars , and had to fend off a pack of vulture-like suitors who wanted to take over Ulysses ' estate , wealth and derelict wife . |
| 9 | During the 1980s , the domestic industry opted almost exclusively to clone the DEC VAX , and when the company set up a subsidiary in Hungary in 1990 , it held off suing the key clone supplier , KFKI , in return for the firm handing over its customer lists . |