Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [vb past] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 2 | Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father . |
| 3 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
| 4 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 5 | The first Phoenix King made no response , merely climbed onto the back of Indraugnir and flew off into the dreadful night . |
| 6 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 7 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 8 | He was a baby-faced product of the concerned middle classes , born in Derby and whisked off to the Home Counties at an early age . |