Example sentences of "[verb] off at a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
2 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
3 | He saw it break its flight over a dell between the dunes , soar vertically and then head off at an angle . |
4 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
5 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
6 | Around the south of Ithaka , stop off at a day anchorage for lunch and a swim , then into Port Vathi , capital of Ithaka . |
7 | with unusual curtness and drove off at a speed which suggested that Darren was about to enjoy a gratifyingly exciting ride . |
8 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
9 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
10 | But I 've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants . |
11 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
12 | At the top of the fire-back the filling is smoothed off at an angle of about 45° . |
13 | Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling . |
14 | These can only be sold off at a loss . |
15 | A SET of race ace Nigel Mansell 's tyres are to be sold off at an auction next month for Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital in London . |
16 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
17 | When he reached the gates , pushing through the children , he looked both ways along the main road , then set off at a trot in the general direction of the Stones ' household , several miles away . |
18 | Then they set off at a run , Jim and Louise leading the way , Jube pounding along behind them . |
19 | It remained for a moment , a definite form , before moving off at a half-crouched , shambling run to hide behind one of the gravestones . |
20 | Where the line of stones breaks , lines of energy could be detected moving off at a tangent . |
21 | From the roadside a short distance west of Blindbeck Bridge , a cart track branches off at a tangent and climbs easily to the shallow depression between Barbon Low Fell and Barbon High Fell , having the stream ( named as Aygill by the Ordnance Survey and as Barkin Gill by the caving fraternity ) away on the left . |
22 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
23 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention — although anything that the Government nationalise they may flog off at a profit at a later date , so I ask him to keep an eye on the situation . |
24 | If the spacing between the strands is uneven , or if they curve or go off at an angle , the knotting is irregular , and denotes a poor quality rug . |
25 | On the corner of the cul-de-sac they go off at an angle do n't they . |
26 | Jezrael lurched stiffly to her feet and lumbered off at a run . |
27 | Feeling the wagon level again , it took off at a trot . |
28 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
29 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
30 | But , talk to Stevely on the subject of how well he has taught them and this most modest of men will go off at a tangent , drawing attention to the extent to which both girls have been prepared to work . |