Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] off with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 2 | So I started off with the idea that there 's this little baby in the cradle , he 's completely in the dark and the dark is something really frightening . |
| 3 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
| 4 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 5 | When , some years ago , I did a restaurant-reporting stint for another magazine , I kicked off with the Ritz Hotel . |
| 6 | Last week Mr Harper 's brother Paul offered a £500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the four-man gang which made off with the £3,000 haul . |
| 7 | Niven Jr was tied up by two gunmen , who made off with the haul belonging to Elizabeth Adams . |
| 8 | One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball . |
| 9 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 10 | You start off with the truth , embellish it slightly , then gradually add to it , until you finish up with a fully-fledged whopper . |
| 11 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 12 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 13 | She ran off with the silver . |
| 14 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 15 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 16 | Soccer , sidecar racing and hill climbing in sport tonight , which we kick off with the fight for promotion to the first division . |
| 17 | I told you we walked off with the , with er Fel Felicity |
| 18 | Suppose we start off with the class of animals . |
| 19 | We start off with the front cover sheet . |
| 20 | We start off with the same two words every time . |
| 21 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 22 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 23 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 24 | But leaving that aside i i it started off with the , the Co-op in Scotland , and also Safeways . |
| 25 | ‘ It started off with the helmet law and it 's progressed from there , ’ he said . |
| 26 | He dozed off with the familiar , soothing noise of Firelight 's hay-chomping over his head . |
| 27 | Then he ran off with the wire , not out of the gate , but round to the front of the house . |
| 28 | Lardner was called ‘ the Tyrant ’ by his contributors ; he was an Irishman , who created a sensation when he ran off with the wife of an army officer . |
| 29 | It comes off with the makeup . ’ |
| 30 | It comes off with the makeup . |