Example sentences of "[vb past] off in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 2 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 3 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 4 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 5 | Halema handed the incense pot to one of the maids , and the women moved off in a wave of black veiling . |
| 6 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 7 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 8 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 9 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 10 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 11 | On her way to the house she stopped off in the Campo San Maurizio to see if Annunziata had everything she needed for the dinner she was preparing to welcome Comfort , and discovered that the English post had arrived with a letter from George Wilson . |
| 12 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 13 | Then she roared off in an estate car with the baby in the back . |
| 14 | The Blades lost talented youngster Dane Whitehouse — stretchered off in the first-half — and then Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Alan Kelly was led from the field with a face wound . |
| 15 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 16 | But after flagging down passing motorists , Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend 's car . |
| 17 | They drove off in a grey transit van which was found abandoned soon after the raid . |
| 18 | They drove off in a red Sierra XR 3 . |
| 19 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 20 | I remembered the name of the manufacturer who 'd said ‘ yes ’ on the telephone , and two days later drove off in the Metro and picked out my coffin . |
| 21 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 22 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 23 | After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat . |
| 24 | During our game with Sporting Hydra Chemicals in which we trounced them before going down 1–0 , Duncan Pugh 's false beard came off in a goal-mouth fracas and he was questioned , at length , by referee Bobby Maxwell . |
| 25 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 26 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 27 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 28 | You could follow my example and hitchhike out of Miami airport , but only if you 're prepared to risk being picked up by a religious maniac , or dropped off in an impenetrable jungle of freeways close to the cocaine-dealing centre of America , or both . |
| 29 | A series of extra security measures were introduced in Portadown following the blast , with a number of roads in the town sealed off in the evenings to stop the bombers getting through . |
| 30 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |