Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 4 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 7 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 10 | A long ridge-walk requires an early start , and a companion and I set off from the hotel at 8.30 , toast crumbs still trembling on our lips , to attain the ridge by the first peak , Creag a' Mhaim . |
| 11 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So if I started off with a half X squared and I differentiated it I would get two times a half times X |
| 14 | I continued for fifty minutes , alienating the audience more with every gag , until I walked off to the sound of my own footsteps . |
| 15 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 16 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 17 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 18 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 19 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | Well , summer is well and truly with us — though as I write I ca n't decide whether to pack my industrial strength waterproofs or my total block sun cream when I go off to the Peak District this weekend . |
| 22 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 23 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 24 | I screamed at him as I ran off through the woods . |
| 25 | As I drift off into the aisle , I see Lil gliding back towards our stand , escorting a pair of avenging angels . |
| 26 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 27 | I remember thinking how white and cold and still her face looked , without the breeze of thought or sentience , as I stumbled off to the tumult of the ramp . |