Example sentences of "and [vb -s] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 2 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 3 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 4 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 5 | My eyes are respectfully downcast while this paunch on legs breaks his wrist , blows a kiss , and sashays off to the tea-machine ? |
| 6 | Here is Tufnell coming up again , bowls over and outside the off stump , and that one goes to Robin Smith , and he 's hit somewhere on the boot and ricochets off down the pitch . |
| 7 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 8 | THREE or four times a month a Royal Bank lorry laden with 4 tonnes of waste paper pulls out of Drummond House and sets off for a paper mill in Fife . |
| 9 | She hops out , bangs the door shut only slightly too energetically , and strolls off towards the shops without a backward glance . |
| 10 | Position markers of mother-of-pearl are inlaid offset in the rosewood , and their diminutive size once again departs from the traditional and scurries off in the direction of the new , though there 's garish or clumsy about them . |
| 11 | If the alarm gets no response , the timer goes ahead and switches off in the interest of safety and economy . |
| 12 | An eel of about 1lb swings out , which luckily is only lip hooked and comes off with no trouble . |