Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 32 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 33 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 34 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 35 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 36 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 37 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 38 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 39 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 40 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 41 | Hurry off for the bran . |
| 42 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 43 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 44 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 45 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 46 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 47 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 48 | Non-stop swearing , stripping off on the field , making V-signs at the sponsor 's daughter . |
| 49 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 50 | The East Belfast man ca n't put a foot over the door of his Cregagh Road home without first stripping off in the garden . |
| 51 | A court dealing with an offender who is already subject to a community service order may make a further consecutive order , so long as the total number of hours remaining to be performed does not exceed 240 ( as this is a matter of principle rather than statute , the court is prepared to contemplate minor departures , as where the offender has very few hours to work off under the original order . ) |
| 52 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 53 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 54 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 55 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 56 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 57 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 58 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 59 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 60 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |