Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] their own " in BNC.
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| 1 | After lunch , pensioners had the choice of venturing off on their own or visiting the Tales of Robin Hood Centre . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 4 | It had begun the day before , the suggestion of going off on their own , hiring a car . |
| 5 | Or you can actually try freezing them to kill them and then they just drop off on their own . |
| 6 | A group of about fifty teenagers who had followed them then set off on their own march through the banned area . |
| 7 | Even though they were camping illegally the travellers were allowed to stay all weekend , before moving off on their own . |
| 8 | 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 , . |
| 9 | After staying here , most girls , apart from the very young ones , go off to their own flats . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The others would get bored with waiting and go off on their own without him . |
| 12 | Grown-up sons go off on their own , grown-up daughters stay put or set up splinter groups nearby . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Too large a party , and groups of guests who know each other can split off on their own . |
| 15 | A hollow-eyed Maltote had taken a strangely exhausted Ranulf off to their own lodgings so the clerk and his wife had dined by themselves in the small hall below and spent the rest of the time here in their bedchamber . |
| 16 | And it looks as if this behaviour is all about encouraging the ducklings to erm , go off on their own , as it were an and to start to run off and look for food . |
| 17 | She did not think boys did go off on their own like that . |
| 18 | Went off on their own . ’ |
| 19 | When Frankie arrived on Tuesday afternoon with his printing order , he got hold of Mark and they went off on their own . |
| 20 | It must be said that because , traditionally , psychology comes from a denial of spirit whoever goes into the process is cut off from their own light . |
| 21 | In such cases the extended family begins to look quite complex , but it is still essentially based upon the original pair , and when young do become fully adult they are driven away or wander off on their own to form separate pairs . |
| 22 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 23 | The worshippers headed off in their own directions , and the ordered chequerboard shattered . |
| 24 | At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales . |