Example sentences of "off into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 2 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you , ’ said Lucy softly , hugged her again and went off into the night . |
| 4 | They are off into the hills and they will hide there as outlaws till the Act is lifted . ’ |
| 5 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 6 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 8 | The October sun dipped into the Atlantic , silhouetting the Paps of Jura as we shoved off into the sound toward Harry 's Island . |
| 9 | The play tails off into the cries and inarticulate exclamations where , escaping the situation in which ‘ I got ta use words ’ in their normal sense , language becomes a cry of despair and horror as primal as the ‘ Wah ! |
| 10 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 11 | The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm . |
| 12 | The barrier at the main gate is already open and the two vehicles shoot through and off into the darkness . |
| 13 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 14 | The heavy , overripe Season 's End soars plaintively off into the distance , and Holloway Girl has a sort of oceans-and-mountains quality you wo n't find in , say , the music of Debbie Gibson . |
| 15 | With more than $20m-worth of Microsoft shares , Mr Shirley will sail off into the sunset in June , when he plans to retire . |
| 16 | And he ran off into the trees . |
| 17 | ( Dana would never dream of doing such a thing — he would just take off into the void and somehow find his way around . ) |
| 18 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 19 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 20 | The minute it 's taken , though , Hall is off into the VIP trailer from which he walks straight onto the set . |
| 21 | She went off into the kitchen . |
| 22 | Isabel nodded and went off into the garden . |
| 23 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 24 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 25 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 26 | He would go off into the mountains for days on end . |
| 27 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 28 | I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground . |
| 29 | Got measurements to take , calculations to work out ’ , and sped off into the distance . |
| 30 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |