Example sentences of "had [verb] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 2 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 3 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 4 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 5 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 6 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 7 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 8 | True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 11 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 12 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 13 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 14 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |