Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pillars ran around the circular enclosure , and the myriad corridors all seemed to disappear off to an elaborate pattern . |
| 2 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 3 | In we were fortunate in that the time of the introduction of L M S coincided with the all too brief period when this group was in control of the Council and as the window of opportunity opened to get off to a flying start |
| 4 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 5 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 6 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 7 | There were several hundred birds and , because we had rounded a corner and surprised them , they panicked and went rushing off in a tight bunch , making an accurate count impossible . |
| 8 | We go up the hill on the toboggans and you 're meant to use your brakes and one of us did , and we just went flying off into the raging snow . |
| 9 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 10 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 11 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 12 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 13 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 14 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 15 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 16 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 17 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 18 | In a meeting late on Tuesday , the couple agreed the tour had got off to a bad start , upsetting the Koreans . |
| 19 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
| 20 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 21 | Today — the Saturday of the Whitsun weekend — the shop had opened its doors to the public for the first time ; and they had got off to an encouraging start . |
| 22 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 23 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 24 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 26 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 27 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 28 | Relaxing in the bar of Le Palais after the sweat-soaked teenagers had trooped off into a sunny Autumn afternoon , Waterman explained the strategy behind this latest step in Kylie 's inexorable rise . |
| 29 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 30 | True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man . |