Example sentences of "and [vb past] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 2 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 3 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 4 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 5 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 6 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 7 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 10 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 11 | " I 'm off home , She waved and cycled off down the High Street . |
| 12 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 13 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 14 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 15 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 16 | And then with a final glance to either side he turned and walked off towards the main gate . |
| 17 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 18 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 19 | The first Phoenix King made no response , merely climbed onto the back of Indraugnir and flew off into the dreadful night . |
| 20 | Everyone in London was wondering why Guy left his fiancée on her own , and flew off to the Caribbean on the spur of the moment … ’ |
| 21 | He went outside , shutting the large doors silently and started off down the concrete road . |
| 22 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 23 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 24 | He dropped a light kiss on her cheek and strode off across the empty square . |
| 25 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
| 26 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
| 27 | Masklin grabbed the Thing and took off across the polished surface . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , fuck you ! ’ shouted Martin , and stomped off to the spare room . |
| 29 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 30 | However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release . |