Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 2 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 3 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 4 | No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence . |
| 5 | Then I slide off in the direction of New Cross Station . |
| 6 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
| 7 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 8 | We set off in the sunshine and quickly reached Snake Pass |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't fancy marching in this heat , ’ remarked the driver as he started up the engine and we sped off in the direction of the Orne bridges . |
| 10 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 11 | They squelched off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms and a bottle of Rémy Martin . |
| 12 | Bridget murmured as they set off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms . |
| 13 | They took off in the dark . |
| 14 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 15 | ‘ The notion of tragedy did n't enter my head , ’ she protested , ‘ but it did seem odd for her to break off in the middle of a phone call like that . ’ |
| 16 | They ran off in the direction of Northlands Road . |
| 17 | And they backed off in the stumbling , hurried , slightly reckless way that traffic pulls over for ambulances or royalty . |
| 18 | THE earth wo n't move for married astronauts Jan Davis and Mark Lee after they blast off in the shuttle Endeavour tomorrow . |
| 19 | Not to be outdone , Dave Doyle claimed to have at least 108 , but they washed off in the shower . |
| 20 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 21 | It 's a weird thing erm it starts off in the root and then it erm u used a single mouse fix to patch it |
| 22 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 23 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 25 | I mean he started off in the Met er did his training and everything and then I think he 's up here somewhere now . |
| 26 | When he broke off in the middle of the sentence , she glanced up at him curiously and was completely taken by surprise when he pulled her into his arms and kissed her . |
| 27 | right and it falls off in the soup |
| 28 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 29 | He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’ |
| 30 | He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat . |