Example sentences of "[verb] off towards [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium .
2 After five hours ( feeling a bit over-exposed ) parked on the tarmac , flying off towards the Gulf was an appealing prospect .
3 After hearing pro-Yeltsin and anti-Gorbachev speeches they set off towards the Kremlin down Tverskaya ( formerly Gorky Street ) , Moscow 's main thoroughfare .
4 Assailed from both sides , the masher decided that the game was not worth the candle , and , dodging by Neil , to the latter 's great relief , he scuttled off towards the Haymarket .
5 He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off .
6 The theft did not interfere with the good relations between the two men , however , and Gould , having secured a place on Sturt 's forthcoming expedition to South Australia , set off towards the Liverpool Plains , north of Sydney .
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