Example sentences of "their [noun pl] and [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often there 's a lot of , that people erm do or do n't do that you , you ca n't erm go along with when people are wanting terminations of pregnancy or , or they 're thinking of leaving their husbands and going off with somebody else then you just have to listen to what they say and put the facts as you see them in front of them . |
| 2 | They watched the three girls pair off with their brothers and go off in different directions . |
| 3 | Blackbirds hopped — and paused , heads to one side , then cocked their tails and took off with much commotion to sing full-throatedly from the treetops . |
| 4 | Our visitors rose , said their farewells and walked off across the court again . |
| 5 | Armed only with a false beard , a small knife and a lot of cheek , Mr Vendu would cut the paintings out of their frames and walk off with them ; he even took a Renoir from the Louvre . |
| 6 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 7 | We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes . |
| 8 | When the daylight drained from the winter sky , like steel growing cold , some of the humans got into their vehicles and drove off down the lane . |