Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'll need a lot of breath for this lengthy stint , which heads off towards the new year . |
| 32 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 33 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 36 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 39 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 40 | Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms . |
| 41 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 42 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 43 | Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town . |
| 44 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 45 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |
| 46 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |
| 47 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 48 | Parents will no longer accept being fobbed off by the so-called experts . |
| 49 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 50 | You 've always made it quite clear that you were staying here and that I could fuck off to the other end of the world for all you cared . |
| 51 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 52 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 53 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 54 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 55 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 56 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 57 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 58 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 59 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 60 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |