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

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1 Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent .
2 Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge .
3 I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely .
4 But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme .
5 All UI members — including SunSoft — will have to sign off on the new document , now in draft form , before it can be published .
6 MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest .
7 But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) .
8 This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms .
9 If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture .
10 The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities .
11 Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them .
12 We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes .
13 But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed .
14 She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor .
15 This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain .
16 True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man .
17 Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them .
18 Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident .
19 Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll .
20 After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June .
21 He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals .
22 The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase .
23 The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island .
24 For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices .
25 ‘ He 's got off by the blonde one in the wig , anyway ! ’
26 In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot .
27 ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’
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