Example sentences of "and take off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would have been better to use the subjects as springboards for complete fiction , leaving the pedantic detail — and the risk of libel suits — behind , and taking off into the story-telling stratosphere . |
| 3 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 4 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 5 | Rex dumped the two-headed sailor-boy back on my knee and took off for the phone . |
| 6 | It was flown by Geoff Dodd , a company pilot : ‘ I picked up my survival suit , cleared Special Branch , and took off for the Isle of Man suited-up and wearing a life-jacket . |
| 7 | The bat flapped around his misshapen hat and took off into the dark . |
| 8 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 9 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 10 | The position of the runway and the topography of the island means that planes normally land and take off over the sea . |
| 11 | The time-travellers manage to escape from the Aridians and take off in the TARDIS , but the Dalek time-ship is in hot pursuit . |