Example sentences of "[vb past] off at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 2 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 3 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 4 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 5 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 6 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 7 | Her career quickly took off at top international level ; his did not , and eventually he went back to Russia . |
| 8 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 9 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 10 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 11 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 12 | Newspapers were full of stories of leukaemia clusters near nuclear establishments and of the long-term victims of Chernobyl and minor releases , people picked off at random within the pattern of statistical formulations . |