Example sentences of "have [verb] off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ambulance service has taken off in a big way . |
| 2 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 3 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 4 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 5 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 8 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 9 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 12 | Uninhibited by any tradition of building , they have taken off in a confused conglomeration of tile , cement , plastics , marble and paint that would have taxed the imagination of Disney . |