Example sentences of "take off down the " in BNC.

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1 Then we took off down the back alleys in case someone saw us and told our parents .
2 Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels .
3 Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance .
4 A car or two , the wrong ones , took off down the street in the direction of the town .
5 The young lad , who was sitting on his bike nearby , took off down the street with his back and legs covered in flames .
6 Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain .
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