Example sentences of "[verb] off at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 2 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 3 | Anyway , she drove off at high speed , ignoring all senso unicos , and finally crashed into a bollard by the ospedale . |
| 4 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 5 | If it is only 20 francs , Father will perhaps give me another 10 … and then I 'll rush off at tremendous speed . ’ |
| 6 | He arrives spot on time , is introduced in 15 words and goes off at high speed . |
| 7 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 8 | Yet again , a piece of the family silver is being sold off at rock-bottom price , at great — |
| 9 | That night , it was like firecrackers going off at New Year 's ; the next morning the blood flowed like rivers . |
| 10 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 11 | To escape the posse of photographers and television crews that were always lying in wait , they would set off at high speed along treacherous tracks , with Europe 's press in hot pursuit . |
| 12 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 13 | He appeared to be asleep but when he saw officers he took off at high speed . |
| 14 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 15 | However , stability demands that the gain falls off at high frequency ( see next section ) . |
| 16 | She was pissed off at missing Triste at the bar , but there would be other jobs . |
| 17 | When the weights had started to slip she dismounted to adjust them , and the horse shot off at great speed . |
| 18 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 19 | When the same thing is attempted deliberately , however , one turn is usually enough to send the model shooting off at great speed in some totally unexpected direction ! |