Example sentences of "[vb -s] off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes increasingly ill at ease until eventually the din and the intrusions become too much for it and it flaps off to find a quieter spot somewhere else . |
| 2 | But he stomps off to have a think now and then . |
| 3 | After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . |
| 4 | The road out of Shiel Bridge runs along the south side of Loch Duich and soon arrives at a junction where a no-through-branch turns off to serve the scattered habitations along the shore , ending at Totaig and the forlorn slipway of the abandoned ferry to Dornie . |
| 5 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 6 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 7 | He describes what happens after a typical Russian business deal : ‘ One man goes off to find the goods and the other to find the money . |
| 8 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 9 | She trips off to view the fashion show . |
| 10 | She is a body in a room ; she is the room ; her head takes off to become a camera snapping and exposing the million thoughts flashing through her brain every second . |
| 11 | Lalu falls in love with mule skinner Jim ( a rather lacklustre Dennis Dun ) , who lopes off to raise the readies to buy her from slimy Hong King ( Michael Paul Chan ) leaving her in the care of his friend Charlie Bemis ( Chris Cooper ) , a compassionate but cowardly Yankee with a booze problem . |
| 12 | At least half an hour goes by before the laibon breaks off to welcome the returning cattle . |
| 13 | Eventually the guard strolls off to press the button . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ Kitty continued , ‘ all those years in that heat then she walks off to see the summer-house and would n't take a cardigan . |
| 15 | God speaks , but the stammering is so great that his wig slips off to reveal a fairly well-carved wooden figure . |
| 16 | A peasant catches two partridges , takes them home to his wife to cook and sets off to invite the village priest to join them . |
| 17 | The particle of matter is instantly whipped towards the black hole by the huge gravitational tug ; the antiparticle is simultaneously repelled , and zips off to become a part of our Universe — although probably not for very long , because it will annihilate itself as soon as it encounters another matter particle . |
| 18 | You simply undo two screws at the front and the top slides off to reveal an 8-bit Soundblaster card , tucked into one of the three 16-bit expansion slots . |