Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] off into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 2 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 3 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 4 | Not to mention every day of the week when you climb on that evil machine and ride off into the sunset ! ’ |
| 5 | His foot struck a cassette-player that skittered off into the darkness . |
| 6 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 7 | She invited him to cover it up with a paper bag but he snapped the band round the back of his head and ran off into the street , an elephant ramping above the collar of his jersey , his new trunk bobbing . |
| 8 | Then she yawned , blinked , turned her back and walked off into the house . |
| 9 | Its heroes do not characteristically commit suicide or ride off into the sunset : they settle down , marry , and make comfortable and elaborate treaties with the world they live in . |
| 10 | What is apt to happen when we strike a solid is that a whole series of stress waves radiate from the point of impact and move off into the body of the material . |
| 11 | I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind . |
| 12 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 13 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 14 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 15 | He put down his glass of tea , lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris . |
| 16 | Here the strange , tilted cliffs of the Corniche begin , layers of schist or of limestone that slide off into the water at an angle of 45 degrees and there make starkly visible ridges on the seabed . |
| 17 | Hearing what sounded like a muttered exclamation of fury at her elbow , Melissa looked around and saw Dora turn on her heel and march off into the orchard , where she stopped under an apple tree and stared up into the branches as if inspecting its heavy crop of fruit . |
| 18 | The horses lose interest and sashay off into the night . |
| 19 | He doffed his hat and walked off into the mist . |
| 20 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |