Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 2 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 3 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 4 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 5 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 6 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 7 | At the last moment the hare sensed the danger and bounded off into the undergrowth . |
| 8 | Frantic parents continued to hassle and swear and at last the stoat grew tired and bounded off into the cover of a pine tree windbreak . |
| 9 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 10 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 11 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 12 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 13 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 14 | ‘ Run , ’ Vitor instructed , and as Ashley obediently turned and headed off up the drive he sprinted beside her . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll wait , ’ I said , and headed off towards the postroom . |
| 16 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 17 | The designer , Sandy Powell , has known Anderson since their first day at St Martin 's when they played truant and headed off to the pub after about 15 minutes . |
| 18 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 19 | After quite a lot of persuasion and promises of chocolate bars , I finally got back into my canoe and headed off down the river to find my paddle and the rest of the group . |
| 20 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 21 | The edges of the solid alder body are smoothly rounded at the front but squared off on the back , with no comfy contouring . |
| 22 | But now she felt cocooned in her own private shell of misery , as cut off from the noise and activity around her as if she were frozen in ice . |
| 23 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 24 | There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly , then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud . |
| 25 | Also , from the minimal information on CEEFAX I suspect Wilko is as pissed off as the rest of us about it . |