Example sentences of "and [verb] off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are unusually anxious or irritated , they may find the noise just too much to deal with and stalk off in a feline sulk rather than squat down for a good meal . |
| 2 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 3 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 4 | Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan . |
| 5 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 6 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 7 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse . |
| 9 | Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves . |
| 10 | HAMLET , however , continues the movement into an about-turn and walks off in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | We were there to witness William getting to grips with his brand-new Jet Ski ; this process seemed to consist largely of getting on , powering away , trying to turn too fast and falling off in an extravagant splash . |
| 12 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 13 | They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction . |
| 14 | However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release . |
| 15 | In the following year the Beaux-Arts style emerged at its most majestic in Washington , DC , containing some of the most powerful , overpowering indeed , spaces of any station , and set off in a great park-like setting . |
| 16 | They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh . |