Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] off [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An adder had been seen ; it slowly wound its way along the track before sensing intruders and slithering off into cover . |
| 2 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |
| 3 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 4 | Both are harmless to the birds and fall off with weathering and as the ducks moult their feathers . |
| 5 | Bailey pauses and stares off into space . |
| 6 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 7 | Not to be denied , at least a dozen fans hailed waiting taxis and set off in pursuit . |
| 8 | I cradled the gun in my arms and set off at Emergency Speed , hurtling down the path back to the island at maximum , trusting to luck and adrenalin that I would n't put a foot wrong and end up lying gasping in the grass with a multiple fracture of the femur . |
| 9 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |