Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 2 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 3 | So Mrs Smith left us alone and I stripped off in front of my friend although I made her turn away when I came to my combs . |
| 4 | Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer . |
| 5 | 1.05pm — Having left Tony and his Mum at his appointment , I set off in the direction of the A4 . |
| 6 | I met Mr Coary and Mr Rafter of the sewing-machine shop , and once the back-slapping was over , I set off in the manager 's car for my new lodgings . |
| 7 | On one day during the test , I set off in a whiteout and finished , 12 hours later , in a torrential downpour . |
| 8 | I set off in pursuit . |
| 9 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 10 | ‘ My Cat ’ , it began , ‘ was in agony due to being hung upside down from our bedroom window by my brother , when I set off in the luxurious coach provided for us . |
| 11 | I set off in the van to ask on imported cereal intake if he 's seen it . |
| 12 | ‘ By the way , I get off in half an hour . ’ |
| 13 | It was fortuitous that my slackening off in actual programme production at CBC coincided with an increasing social activity , mainly with the Semmens family , whose house I had almost begun to regard as home . |
| 14 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 15 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 16 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 17 | no your sit and smooth Elsa and I went off in heed , I am Tommy |
| 18 | No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence . |
| 19 | I dozed off in front of the television . |
| 20 | It 's like a mechanic letting someone drive off in a car with loose wheel nuts . |
| 21 | Broadhurst , who won £28,650 in finishing third in the Carrolls Irish Open at Killarney on Sunday , said : ‘ It would be nice to carry on from where I left off in Ireland . ’ |
| 22 | Then I slide off in the direction of New Cross Station . |
| 23 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 24 | The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap . |
| 25 | There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday . |
| 26 | This season a new team has been included in the competition which kicks off in mid-September . |
| 27 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 28 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 29 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 30 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |