Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 2 | But soon he took off from the earthly tediousness of the concrete for a glide in purer air . |
| 3 | Then he walked off towards an irregular stone monument near the graves , a memorial to the 543 Jews from the area murdered by the Germans . |
| 4 | He indicated dancing by making a stirring motion with his index finger and nearly knocking the vodka flask over , and then he lurched off towards the music . |
| 5 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 6 | Then he ran off with the wire , not out of the gate , but round to the front of the house . |
| 7 | Then he ran off down the road like a pack o' dogs was after him . |
| 8 | And then he rushed off to the bathroom and started throwing up . ’ |
| 9 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 10 | Another smile , then he walks off along the balcony and back inside The Gun . |
| 11 | I 'm not totally without feelings — ’ Then he broke off with a frown and added , ‘ Though , as the most obnoxious specimen you 've ever met in your entire life , I ca n't expect you to believe that . ’ |
| 12 | Then he broke off as a newcomer appeared , working his way through the throng of people leaving the Chapel , against the tide . |
| 13 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |
| 14 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
| 15 | But it was unlucky 13 when he took off from an airfield in Yorkshire in a Halifax bomber . |
| 16 | Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , whose parents live at Llangoed , has not been seen since last Thursday , when he set off on a hike through a forest towards a glacier , close to south east Alaskan town of Juneau . |
| 17 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |