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 . |