Example sentences of "and [verb] off [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 2 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 3 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 4 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 5 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 6 | And best of all , inevitably , the celestial ‘ Car Wash Hair ’ is included here , where the band successfully sound like an entire orchestra swapping instruments mid-song , just about keeping their cool and gliding off into deep melody space , against the odds , with real elegant chaos . |
| 7 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 8 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 9 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 10 | The interloper gave in and flew off in dizzy flight , back down the ride . |
| 11 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 12 | Apply to face and neck , leave on for 10–15 minutes and rinse off with cool water . |
| 13 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 14 | The provision of horses was unexpected , but curiously cheering , because it seemed to show that the giants were sending Floy and Snodgrass off in reasonable style , as if they expected them to return . |
| 15 | On their first afternoon together , following an after-lunch stroll around the flower beds , the man was astonished to see Noddy leap a five foot dry-stone wall , and take off in hot pursuit of a clapped-out Morris Marina that had spluttered up the lane by the foot of the garden . |
| 16 | The gill is easy walking and leads up on to Crag Hill , which is near my home in the Dales , so one day , throwing work to one side , I cadged a lift down Barbondale to Blind Beck Bridge and set off in bright sunshine up the track to Bullpot Farm and Bull pot of the Witches . |