Example sentences of "they [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 2 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 3 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 4 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 5 | Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town . |
| 6 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 7 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 8 | They drove off in a red Sierra XR 3 . |
| 9 | They drove off in a grey transit van which was found abandoned soon after the raid . |
| 10 | They wend off across the dully shining floor of the ballroom , heading approximately for the stairs . |
| 11 | They swung off down the weedy gravel , skirting the grand , derelict stables and following the drive until it became a track and the land began to rise . |
| 12 | She had no idea why she suddenly looked back , as they set off across the level turf that stretched above that mysterious underworld of brick-built labyrinths . |
| 13 | The lights of Soufrière twinkled a long way off as they set off into the black , and headed north for Marigot Bay . |
| 14 | They set off through the drizzling rain , climbing the steep path up the rock which the monks said was popularly known as Arthur 's Seat . |
| 15 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 16 | Heads down , they set off at a fast trot which lasted until Loretta twisted her ankle . |
| 17 | Instead of enduring the summer 's baking heat , they set off on a long journey up into the Australian Alps . |
| 18 | In Siam , Thomson teamed up with a journalist called Kennedy , and , together with a large entourage , they set off on a perilous journey to Cambodia . |
| 19 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 20 | Accompanied by Major Clive Elderton , the Company Commander , and the interpreter , they set off for the local slaughterhouse some ten kilometres away . |
| 21 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 22 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 23 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 24 | They set off from the same place but , like pieces of something that had just exploded , they each took a different course across the lawn . |
| 25 | They scuttled off after the other boys . |
| 26 | They took off from the amphibious assault ship U S S Okinowa on a routine patrol , but a short while later , all voice and radar contact was suddenly lost . |
| 27 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 28 | That mathematicians had a very very hard time and they got a lot of things wrong they went off down the wrong track for hundreds of years before |
| 29 | They regularly assert that the significance of an observed action is symbolic ( rather than functional ) and they start off with a basic assumption that emotions and attitudes are just as much observable characteristics as colours or structures . |
| 30 | They rounded off with a scabby diatribe |