Example sentences of "[verb] off through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll leave you with young Hot-to-Trotsky here , then , ’ Clare says , patting Yvonne on the shoulder and winking at me as she sidles off through the cheering crowd . |
| 3 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 4 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 5 | They wove off through the theatre crowd , bending and bowing together . |
| 6 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 7 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 8 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 9 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 10 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 11 | The Muslim 's bird slowly righted itself , got unsteadily to its feet , then limped off through the legs of the crowd . |
| 12 | Sharpe did the same , simply aiming the rifle in the direction of the column , and pulling the trigger so that the bullet whipped off through the stalks . |
| 13 | She had not missed the fact that the coffee-table was piled high with past copies of Query and his arrogant manner was beginning to annoy her to such an extent that she was just about ready to storm off through the door and let Mr Parnham make of it what he could . |
| 14 | I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free . |
| 15 | He walked off through the press of people now all but blocking the way to the door . |
| 16 | And with Superintendent Pumfrey marching off through the door into the private quarters of the Crumwallises , the investigation into the death of Hilary Frome began in earnest . |
| 17 | We set off through the lovely village of Stonethwaite and up the steep woodland path towards Great Crag . |
| 18 | They set off through the drizzling rain , climbing the steep path up the rock which the monks said was popularly known as Arthur 's Seat . |
| 19 | We set off through the pretty woods and were soon at the base of the remarkably clean , steep granite buttress . |
| 20 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 21 | The cart trundled off through the greasy water . |
| 22 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 23 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 24 | When the mashing has absorbed the maximum amount of sugar , the liquid — now known as wort — is run off through the slotted base of the vessel . |
| 25 | It crunched round on the gravel in front of the house then sped off through the gates scattering white stones . |
| 26 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 27 | Then , with an uncaring smile , he strode off through the open doorway . |
| 28 | Mahmud bathed from the stern of the boat and then went off through the trees to buy some food from a nearby village . |
| 29 | Campese was nearly sent flying as he jogged off through the crowd to join the dressing-room celebrations . |
| 30 | Eventually , stone-cold-sober-seeming but perhaps too drunk to drive , he treks off through the dubs of a drizzle ( Thales said the world was made of water , the ‘ primary element ’ , and he handni even been to Glasgow ) back to his bachelor 's tenement flat ( Coelebs still in search of a wife ) . |