Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And i if the man in the field had got a grudge against a bloke who was stacking i or taking off in the stack yard he could make life hell . |
| 2 | Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain . |
| 3 | Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ? |
| 4 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 5 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 6 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 7 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 8 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 9 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 10 | Wash your cans up erm and er and then they 'd go and finish off in the corn fields . |
| 11 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 12 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |
| 13 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |
| 14 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 15 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Have a nice time , and behave yourselves , ’ he concluded , and walked off in the direction of the garden . |
| 17 | I died — and walked off in the dark . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 19 | Simmons suddenly recollected his duties as host , and broke off in the middle of a discussion about whether Botham 's personality was right for the England team . |
| 20 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 21 | Pulling her cloak around her and laying her fork carefully along the wooden pegs on the side of the wain , Alexandra climbed the iron railings , already cold and slippery with new snow , and went off in the direction of the kitchen . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's all I can tell you at the moment , ’ Mould smiled secretively and ran off in the direction of Mr Fractor 's classroom . |
| 23 | Position markers of mother-of-pearl are inlaid offset in the rosewood , and their diminutive size once again departs from the traditional and scurries off in the direction of the new , though there 's garish or clumsy about them . |
| 24 | The straight lines and angles are curved and rounded off in the interest of naturalism , but the geometrical basis remains most marked ; and the imposition of this formula is analogous to the reimposition of Geometric discipline in the changed form of black-figure on the experimentalism of orientalising vase-painting . |
| 25 | If the alarm gets no response , the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy . |
| 26 | Schott decided to make a break for the main rendezvous point with Stirling , and set off in the 3-tonner with his men . |
| 27 | She climbed onto the bike and set off in the direction from which she had come , gathering speed as she descended . |
| 28 | The Doctor pointed along the corridor , and set off in the direction indicated . |
| 29 | She walked briskly out of the station , and set off in the direction of Bayswater , stopping every hundred yards or so to put down her dark blue Revelation suitcase ( a Christmas present from her parents ) and change hands . |
| 30 | Dressed as cowboys , they climbed aboard their trusty steeds ( 's Datsun ! ) and set off in the direction of the County Hall in Exeter where they ambushed the staff and persuaded them to hand over their readies . |