Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 2 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 3 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 4 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 5 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 6 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 8 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 9 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 10 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 11 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 12 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 13 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 14 | Now I only hope I get off to a winning start with Leeds . ’ |
| 15 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 16 | The ceremony was hosted by a couple dressed in matching velvet Babygros , his tipped off by a woolly bobble , hers with what appeared to be a cat 's tail . |
| 17 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 18 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 19 | I strode off along a grassy cliff-top path peppered with stunted gorse bushes , towards the grey lookout tower where a mounted wall-exhibition explains that this stretch of coast is a designated Nature Reserve on account of its abundant birds , wildlife and rare limestone rock formations . |
| 20 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 21 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 22 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 23 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 24 | But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start . |
| 25 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 26 | The first is a surface sore which starts off as a red mark . |
| 27 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 28 | The pink of this species is generally verging on pale purple , and extends from the head in a wedge which tails off to the lower part of the back of the body . |
| 29 | Col. and Mrs Travers in Shiplake had a team of thirty , or so , helpers for their Garden Party , which started off with a magnificent anonymous donation of £300 . |
| 30 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |