Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Nonsense , ’ said Finn , and Lydia decided that even had he not gone off with the duck their relationship would have had no future .
2 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
3 He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals .
4 He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside .
5 He then went off to the desert to see Montgomery , accompanied by Shan Hackett , to ask permission to hand-pick volunteers from the various regiments in the Eighth Army .
6 He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off .
7 terrified , he actually kicked off with the word terrified , this one 's actually kicked off with the word looting .
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