Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every few seconds , it stops , executes a pirouette with its head lifted and then dashes off in another direction . |
| 2 | So , as the couple fly off for another holiday in Richard 's private jet , they can be happy in the knowledge that in the unlikely event that Richard should ever loose his millions , they 'll be able to live on love . |
| 3 | When the harvester moved off into another field , I moved in . |
| 4 | After the programme we exchanged a few words , but he had to dash off to another engagement . |
| 5 | Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely . |
| 6 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
| 7 | The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident . |
| 8 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 9 | Right in the middle of an expanse of orderly herringbone there can be a patch , identical to the rest except that it is twisted round at a different angle so that the ‘ weave ’ goes off in another direction . |
| 10 | I thought you had to go off to another room , to a play room to play in the sand ? |
| 11 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 12 | Could I also give Mr a bit more thinking time by going off on another angle ? |
| 13 | This time he simply said ‘ It does n't work ’ and walked off to another activity . |
| 14 | Imogen will simply move off to another place . ’ |
| 15 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 16 | She did n't seem at all bothered that Gloria and Dot would have to go trudging off to another hospital somewhere else to find him . |
| 17 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 18 | We go off to another site , reached by a quarter mile trek along the main railway line . |
| 19 | You find out what 's wrong with what you 've done and sort of go off in another direction , or maybe follow the same direction slightly and veer off . |
| 20 | Later el muy mierda took to heavy drinking and then he took off with another woman . |
| 21 | He returned to Germany with his unit to find his wife had run off with another man . |
| 22 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
| 23 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's gone off with another bloke , bet you anything . ’ |
| 25 | If someone is critically ill , what well-disposed person will choose the moment to tell him that his business has crashed and his wife has gone off with another man ? |
| 26 | Everything is spelt out to them , it is like getting it on a silver platter , so they can go off into another world for half and hour and get lost in this pretend world , ’ said Kylie . |
| 27 | He should be working , she thought , her mind taking off down another route . |
| 28 | She 's had three boyfriends with normal sight and hearing but says : ‘ The last one went off with another girl with normal sight and hearing . |
| 29 | Your mother went off with another man . |
| 30 | Cos she went off with another chap |