Example sentences of "had [vb pp] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 2 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 3 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 4 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 5 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 6 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 7 | It had seemed to slow down briefly after the impact , as if the driver was considering whether to stop or not , and then had accelerated off into the night . |
| 8 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 9 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 10 | Tal and the Zodiac Twins had moved off along the quay , between the piles of crates and drums , out of sight . |
| 11 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 12 | More or less deliberately , what Lord Robert Cecil had pulled off in the peace Ballot was an irresistible fusion of pacifism and patriotism . |
| 13 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |
| 14 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 15 | We were made welcome by the teachers , provided with a floor to sleep on , and within an hour had set off into the forest to look for wild cocoa . |
| 16 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 17 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
| 18 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 19 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
| 20 | Eventually , when the howling had subsided and the jackals had sloped off to the forest , the dogs would come back in , or they 'd wander off into the frosty night and not return until morning . |
| 21 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 22 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 23 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 24 | The women and children had gone off to the caves — , ‘ Did you not fight ? ’ |
| 25 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 26 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 27 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 28 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 29 | Security chiefs said there would have been widespread bloodshed if the bomb had gone off inside the soldiers ' quarters in Cookstown on Tuesday . |
| 30 | This was their eighth win from 10 games and they achieved the result without the likes of Mick Harford , Paul Elliott and Robert Fleck , who had gone off by the time Newton struck . |