Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] off and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them got off and walked . |
| 2 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 3 | The sun was shining hotly , so I stripped off and spread my garments out to dry , contemplating my wrack . |
| 4 | After a particularly barbarous game of Murder Ball in the school gym , I stripped off and queued up for a quick soaking , along with 40 other pre-pubescent boys . |
| 5 | As I stripped off and dipped my arms into the steaming bucket I wished with all my heart that the porcine uterus was a little short thing and not this horrible awkward shape . |
| 6 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 7 | ‘ I rushed off and called Hoppy , Miles , and Jack and said ‘ roll the presses ’ ‘ , wrote Haynes . |
| 8 | sort it out and I walked off and like I just walked away and Achil and thingy were laughing at , you know , cos not at me at how crap |
| 9 | fucking , fucking crap and as I was saying that my voice broke and I walked off and I started crying |
| 10 | I scampered off and wrote an obscurely pretentious verse . |
| 11 | Well , I scurried off and did my bit , but , the day before we were to meet again , she was killed — and the story with her . ’ |
| 12 | Straightaway I went off and had a bright red flash put in across the front of my hair . |
| 13 | When I flopped at my first job , I was so fed up with myself I thought I was n't worth any decent firm 's money , so I went off and got a frightful job working in a dirty old canteen , just to punish myself , sort of . |
| 14 | And the next day I went off and there was n't even a snail |
| 15 | Then I went off and left him you see when I |
| 16 | Unless I took off and lost my only chance to get my dreams back . |
| 17 | Aunt Margaret and I had the aforementioned ‘ smokin chicken ’ £5.95 which turned out to be a huge half-bird smothered in a nasty synthetic tasting sauce , which I scraped off and replaced with the ketchup on the table . |
| 18 | I ran off and drove away in the car . |
| 19 | I jumped off and ran towards her and … she backed away . |
| 20 | I jumped off and retreated under Marcus 's chair — you ca n't be too careful . |
| 21 | I set off and we had a taxi because it was terrible and I thought oh well , we had a lovely weekend , I 'm not going to er spoil it by being soaking wet getting to Piccadilly station . |
| 22 | clamp from the middle , and erm , I used to carry like down the thing and I just got really out of control , went all over the place , like skis up in the air and one of them came off and the thing , actually , ripped off er , bottom of my boot . |
| 23 | The enemy had seen him : streams of light burst against the rocks , chunks of which flew off and rained down on Defries . |
| 24 | After that she stalked off and refused to come near me . |
| 25 | She trotted off and returned two minutes later with a pure white cashmere cardigan . |
| 26 | But then you rushed off and left me without a chance to say the most important thing of all … ’ |
| 27 | She walked off and made out it were n't her car . |
| 28 | She scuttled off and when Jenna looked up Marguerite was watching from the doorway to the kitchen . |
| 29 | She stormed off and did n't wait for any reply , but Alain caught her quickly . |
| 30 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |