Example sentences of "[verb] off after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision . |
| 2 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 3 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 4 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 5 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 6 | Naturally it had to be washed off after the show before outdoor clothes were put on . |
| 7 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 8 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |
| 9 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 10 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 11 | About 2,000 paramilitary policemen , 600 Bushmen auxiliaries and several helicopter gunships set off after the SWAPO men . |
| 12 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 13 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 14 | Hooves sounded loud in the yard as Colonel Winckler took off after the Prince . |
| 15 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 17 | The driver sped off after the accident with his unconscious victim draped across the front of his red BMW . |
| 18 | Anyway , by that stage I was already pissed off after the result in Dublin . |
| 19 | He sets off after the brothers , succeeds in imitating Haimet , and relieves Barat of his burden . |
| 20 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |
| 21 | The inquest heard that the driver ran off after the accident , in which a motorcyclist and a pedestrian were also injured . |
| 22 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 23 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |
| 24 | Eric Cantona got sent off after the match and then was assaulted by a Turkish riot policeman . |
| 25 | She stood up , instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly , and set off after the machine . |
| 26 | She hurried off after the others . |