Example sentences of "we [vb past] off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away . |
| 2 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 3 | A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us . |
| 4 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 5 | Formalities were hurried over , and we took off into a lowering western sky . |
| 6 | I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust . |
| 7 | OK , we kicked off with a win at Chamden , but they only had five men and most of those looked old enough to remember Bolton Wanderers on Match of the Day . |
| 8 | When everybody was present , we ran off to a classroom and copied the words of a song off the blackboard into our notebooks . |
| 9 | Usually in May we hire a coach and about 50 of us set off on a 3-day , 2-night hotel stay . |