Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 2 | Interested nurses may be invited to an informal gathering over coffee , or to a structured recruitment day addressed by speakers and rounding off with an open session devoted to local job vacancies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Having correctly spaced the members of the party at the other end of the rope , any spare rope should be coiled neatly around the leader 's shoulders and tied off with an overhand knot , ready for possible use later in the day . |
| 5 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 6 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 7 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 8 | Jezrael lurched stiffly to her feet and lumbered off at a run . |
| 9 | Then he scrambled to his feet and hared off between the trees . |
| 10 | The priest staggered to his feet and waddled off with an air of drunken disdain . |
| 11 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 12 | While the creature sought height for another sweep Hrun scrambled to his feet and set off at a dead run for the woods at the edge of the arena . |
| 13 | There , where the sea floor suddenly drops to three thousand feet and more , they dive down to about 1400 feet and swim off in a southwest direction . |
| 14 | The best and longest-lasting tans are acquired slowly — quick tans are usually fast burns and peel off in a trice . |
| 15 | But they must beat Bristol Rovers and sign off with a flourish against Grimsby Town and Wolves . |
| 16 | During World War II Yamaguchi was captured by the Russians and shipped off to a labour camp . |
| 17 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 18 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 19 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 20 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 21 | When they land the young ones break lanes and stream off down the corridor , hustling for position . |
| 22 | Our visitors rose , said their farewells and walked off across the court again . |
| 23 | Sean gathered up the reins and drove off at a smart pace . |
| 24 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 25 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 26 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 27 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 28 | In terror , she lifted her skirts and ran off into the village , proclaiming loudly that ‘ the diel ’ was in Alloway kirk . |
| 29 | And then the moment of truth as the eager new recruits take the controls and move off down a half-mile of track alongside the British Rail line . |
| 30 | We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes . |