Example sentences of "and [verb] off in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer …
2 They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction .
3 The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction .
4 When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction .
5 HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction .
6 After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger .
7 However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release .
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