Example sentences of "have [verb] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
2 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
3 | 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 ) . |
4 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
5 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
6 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
7 | 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 . |