Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , en masse , they embraced and staggered off towards their waiting cars and frozen drivers . |
| 2 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the moment when the bride and groom slip off to their chosen hideaway for a little privacy . |
| 4 | On a bright and chilly Saturday in November , Napier Alumni Golfing Society teed off with their inaugural meeting , at Gullane Golf Club . |
| 5 | THREE masked thugs trussed up businessman Tom Hartley and his wife Helen at their home and drove off in their new £60,000 Mercedes with valuables worth £250,000 . |
| 6 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 7 | Her parents were both cut off by their wealthy families , following a clandestine marriage in the early 1750s . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 9 | Two more sections of the world-famous Dowty Group are being sold off by their new parent company . |
| 10 | As the recital proceeded , the teachers began to drift off to their appointed confessional boxes , anxious to miss , on any excuse , as much as possible of the headmaster 's address . |
| 11 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 12 | No talk of going out for meals then , everyone rushed off to their respective homes , grateful for the knowledge that they would not have to be back in the Variety Theatre until the ‘ half ’ on the Monday evening . |
| 13 | On Boxing Day most families set off for their main summer holiday , heading either for campsites in the bush or at the beach . |
| 14 | The previous Labour Government started off with their normal irresponsible pledges which produced enormous inflation and catastrophic cuts to all public service capital programmes . |
| 15 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 16 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 17 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 18 | Monsterland are some kind of weird Beatles from hell , Hüsker Dü without the ennui factor , badly-produced feedback guitar shouters from Nowheresville who start off like Mudhoney , turn into late-era Byrds and then go haring off on their revving guitars before we can have them arrested . |
| 19 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 20 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 21 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 22 | The arrival of a female at the lek drives the males into a frenzy of display , with much showing off of their remarkable crests . |
| 23 | They will spend 20 minutes or so playing and exploring around their home before rambling off to their feeding grounds . |
| 24 | Glaucous gulls and any other northern stragglers such as Iceland and perhaps ivory gulls will drift off towards their Arctic breeding-grounds . |
| 25 | Contestants will line up at the Blundellsands Hotel , Crosby , at 8am on Sunday and will then parade through the city centre before setting off on their cross-Channel jaunt . |
| 26 | POMPEY boss Jim Smith branded striker Paul Walsh ‘ stupid ’ after he was sent off in their ill-tempered Anglo-Italian Cup tie victory at Fratton Park last night . |
| 27 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |