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 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 10 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 11 | Two more sections of the world-famous Dowty Group are being sold off by their new parent company . |
| 12 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 13 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 14 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On Boxing Day most families set off for their main summer holiday , heading either for campsites in the bush or at the beach . |
| 19 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 20 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |
| 21 | When they have arrived at the fully mobile stage of their development , but have not yet ventured off on their own , they may accompany their mother on short trips away from the ‘ nest , . |
| 22 | Even before Tasker and Boardman had set off on their last attempt Bonington and Adrian Gordon — the base camp manager — decided that they would go up the mountain to help with the descent from the North Col , concerned that if Tasker and Boardman reached the summit by the long ridge above the pinnacles , they would be close to collapse on their descent . |
| 23 | Charles and Di flew off for their third honeymoon this week . |
| 24 | The previous Labour Government started off with their normal irresponsible pledges which produced enormous inflation and catastrophic cuts to all public service capital programmes . |
| 25 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 26 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 27 | In turn , this creates even more secret cabals which go off on their own and carry out unauthorised operations , firmly believing that their plan is the only way to make progress . |
| 28 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
| 29 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 30 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |