Example sentences of "[vb past] off at the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 2 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 3 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 4 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 5 | Cornelius stopped off at the telephone box to call Mr Yarrow at his home . |
| 6 | Yes , I stopped off at the |
| 7 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 8 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 9 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 10 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 11 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 12 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 13 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 14 | The English do not seem to have taken this too seriously ; the fyrd , or coastal militia , was disbanded and the fleet paid off at the most crucial time in late summer , only to be hastily recalled when Harold Hardrada , the Norwegian king , invaded the north . |
| 15 | Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ? |
| 16 | He broke off at the ring of the doorbell . |
| 17 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
| 18 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 19 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 20 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 21 | The golden prize went to Ethiopia 's Derartu Tulu , who took off at the bell to leave South African gazelle Elana Meyer in the silver medal position . |
| 22 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 23 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 24 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 25 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 26 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 27 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 28 | Seconds later , when he marched off at the interval , Gooch got another ovation and handshakes all round from the Australians . |
| 29 | Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her . |
| 30 | Cried off at the very last moment , Mrs Parslow said . |