Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 2 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 3 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 4 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 5 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 6 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |