Example sentences of "and [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TRANSFORMER 2 follow up their massive ‘ Pacific Symphony Too ’ club hit with ‘ Fruit Of Love ’ , already creating a stir and set to step out of the clubs and branch off into higher regions . |
| 2 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 3 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 4 | They broke into the house in Scotto Crescent through the patio doors and made off with several ornaments . |
| 5 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 6 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 7 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 8 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 9 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 10 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 11 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 12 | Again , let the surface dry and finish off with two coats of polyurethane and wax as for the straight sanding process . |
| 13 | And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos . |
| 14 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 15 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 16 | With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake . |
| 17 | These are major problems in identifying , and separating off from other policies , a specific area called ‘ social policy ’ . |
| 18 | Toilet lanolin , obtainable from any chemist , with its base of an oily substance extracted from wool , is an adequate curative , rubbed well into the leather and polished off after several days . |
| 19 | ‘ Saddled us with another kid and raced off without any plan . ’ |
| 20 | Kafka and Milena take fright and run off in different directions . |
| 21 | Pick up your Hertz car in any of the 15 major cities — and drop off in any other of those cities — at no extra charge . |
| 22 | He was careful at first but he soon started to leap about and dash off in all directions . |
| 23 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 24 | This time he simply said ‘ It does n't work ’ and walked off to another activity . |
| 25 | ‘ If boats use sonar or get too close , it is likely to panic the whales and cause them to scatter , and if a whale weighing over 40 tonnes becomes totally disorientated and charges off in any direction , anything could happen . |
| 26 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 27 | The interloper gave in and flew off in dizzy flight , back down the ride . |
| 28 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 29 | Apply to face and neck , leave on for 10–15 minutes and rinse off with cool water . |
| 30 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |