Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] off [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A presidential decree , reported in full in Rossiskaya gazeta of June 18 , allowed state enterprises which failed to pay their debts to the state and to private creditors within three months to be declared bankrupt and either liquidated or auctioned off to the highest bidder for a limited period of time for independent management ( the new managers to be treated as owners , but debarred from dismissing more than 30 per cent of the work force ) . |
| 2 | Or shovelled off into the Old Folks like me . |
| 3 | Beyond the door was a narrow corridor that led off to the right . |
| 4 | She made her way down the corridor that led off from the bar room , continually glancing over her shoulder , half expecting to see either her father or her uncle behind her . |
| 5 | She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing . |
| 6 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |
| 7 | Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain . |
| 8 | His foot struck a cassette-player that skittered off into the darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 11 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't need the river — one look at you is enough ! ’ she declared , and stalked off into the trees . |
| 13 | Then he spun on his heel and stalked off round the side of the cart . |
| 14 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ He just walked in , pushed her aside and made off with the handbag , ’ she claimed . |
| 16 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 17 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 18 | They battered us into the bushes , and made off into the forest with the cart and the team and the load , and left us to limp away on foot wherever we would . |
| 19 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 20 | The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’ |
| 21 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 22 | ‘ Poor old Corbett , ’ said Septimus Coffin , as Penny shoved the books into her briefcase and made off down the drive . |
| 23 | He turned , pale-faced , and made off down the corridor . |
| 24 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 25 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 26 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 27 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 28 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 29 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 30 | The Asian security man unlocked the door to the documentary department office and loped off down the corridor with a distracted smile on his face . |