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 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 4 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 5 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 6 | But you do n't have to rush off to the other extreme . |
| 7 | All UI members — including SunSoft — will have to sign off on the new document , now in draft form , before it can be published . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 11 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 12 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 15 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 16 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 19 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 20 | True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 26 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's got off by the blonde one in the wig , anyway ! ’ |
| 30 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |