Example sentences of "[vb past] off with a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard work payed off with a total of 36 units being sold . |
| 2 | The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd say he was a transit airline passenger on a refuelling stop who got off his aeroplane , changed into a pair of overalls in the toilet , drove off with a van-load of baggage , took what he wanted and was back on his plane well within the time his flight was called , to continue his journey without even going through customs . |
| 4 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 5 | I got off with a lot of things . |
| 6 | Zooshing a citrus scent over an ultra-floral one finished off with a spritz of something exotic and musky before tonight 's hot date , may leave your man more bewildered than bewitched by clashing notes battling for supremacy behind your earlobes . |
| 7 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 8 | They started off with a chain of accidents , then your dad — ‘ |
| 9 | Whitlock trailed off with a shake of his head . |
| 10 | A shearwater skipped the surface almost under his nose and skittered off with a whip-whip-whip of wings . |
| 11 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
| 12 | She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’ |
| 13 | He discovered from Nicholson senior that Nails rarely slept at home and from Nails 's classmates that he went off with a woman on a motor-bike at four o'clock everyday . |
| 14 | Rob Andrew went off with a bang on the nose which needed an X-ray , although it was later revealed that there was no fracture , while his replacement Stuart Barnes had 12 stitches in a head wound caused by a stray boot . |
| 15 | ‘ He went off with a lexicographer with cross-eyes and knock-knees and webbed feet — a duck . ’ |
| 16 | He went off with a list of ideas , and was later observed totally engrossed , having covered two sides of A4 . |
| 17 | The whole thing kicked off with a state of the art video which introduced the T9000 as the ‘ next link in the chain for ranging from supercomputers to database managers , to switching and telecommunications systems , management systems for production lines and car engines . |
| 18 | The match kicked off with a parade of golfers , a display from the Red Arrows in the air and the playing of national anthems that included the German , Spanish , British and one for Uncle Sam . |
| 19 | OK , we kicked off with a win at Chamden , but they only had five men and most of those looked old enough to remember Bolton Wanderers on Match of the Day . |
| 20 | The Cherry and Whites kicked off with a win in their first game … more like a romp as they ran in 45 points against Casale … |
| 21 | From there he set off with a caravan of mules on a journey of some eight hundred miles to Nairobi . |