Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you talk too long they switch off . |
| 2 | Gloriously but illogically they rode off to tilt at another windmill . |
| 3 | So they took off after him , caught him and gave him a hiding . |
| 4 | So they fan off the loose and close down the spaces for the fly-half or blind-side winger . |
| 5 | So they move off that tree and settle on another of a different kind . |
| 6 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 7 | So they start off slowly , |
| 8 | So they start off about there . |
| 9 | So they switched off one side of their brains in order to purge fatigue poisons from their systems while the other cerebral hemisphere remained alert for intruders … |
| 10 | The pilot agreed and together they took off at 1047 hrs . |
| 11 | Together they pulled off a crime which cost their company 's banks and creditors more than eight million pounds . |
| 12 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
| 13 | How How easily they come off . |
| 14 | The sooner they took off , the better , so far as she was concerned . |
| 15 | The bells continued their argument , one of the chimes being now somewhat behind the others and lacking its tenor , but gradually they tailed off into silence . |
| 16 | At once they broke off , and in her honour played What a skin , what a bloom … |
| 17 | My father was thirty-eight , my mother twenty-nine when they married ; a few months later they set off for Addis Ababa . |
| 18 | You see they had mm , er Friday off now they went off to Merryvale , which is fine ! |
| 19 | Well they went off twice . |
| 20 | Well they broke off in wear and when you was overhauling a machine you 'd throw these springs in the tin in case you ever wanted one . |
| 21 | My tea , my science teacher my science teacher , she said to me , , he used say well they bunk off out of their lessons , they hit the teachers , she goes , cos she worked in there , |
| 22 | Well they set off they towed it up and then they had at least six six of them Burn Transit lorries all towing it up . |
| 23 | It did n't affect us physically but the hands on my watch started to turn so fast they came off , and Derek 's digital watch went crazy . |
| 24 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 25 | They follow the drive , heat from the cracked tarmac rising in their faces , then they turn off along the path , dry grass scratching her legs . |
| 26 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 27 | Then they went off to rout the Scottish and Royalist forces . |
| 28 | and then they went off and talking away to each other , it was , it was lovely . |
| 29 | And that they , two people , you know somebody every week will collect in all the languages books and take them along er , or the language homework and take them along to their language teacher and the other one will take the history le , homework and take them on to the history teacher , and then they go off to assembly alright ? |
| 30 | Now they 've got the centre the children seem to spend the first ten minutes with their parents and then they go off and play and their parents can have some time together . |