Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , though , I must float off to Paris . |
| 2 | As Nietzsche wrote , ‘ The Germans are a people of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow ’ Germany , like a happy wanderer , must go off in search of its fortune , shaking off parental tutelage and political adolescence . |
| 3 | He says that at the beginning of the relationship he wrestled with himself , knowing that he should back off from Mandy . |
| 4 | The debate has the style of a Westminster confrontation , and you get the strong impression that even the complete no-hopers must sneak off at home to lie in the bath to practise cries of ‘ shame ’ , ‘ hear , hear ’ and other parliamentary harrumphing . |
| 5 | The next time the hon. Gentleman is on the train for Newcastle he should get off at Darlington and I will arrange a guided tour of that project for him . |
| 6 | At present we ourselves consider that any treatment programme , whether homoeopathic or otherwise , should start off with attention to diet . |
| 7 | First it 'll stop off at Brize Norton to pick up supplies for the Tornadoes operating the air exclusion zone . |
| 8 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll take off before Matt , ’ he said . |
| 10 | oh , must find this seat belt ca ca n't find it wo n't go in it 's flashing at me saying I have n't got my seat belt , but I have or and we 'll go off to Southwold |
| 11 | I 'll go off to Bulgaria with them . |
| 12 | He 'll go off after breakfast . |
| 13 | Let it be some dreamy boy of about seventeen with his hair cut in ‘ curtains ’ and some really nice gear , then she could show off to Sam and the others ! |
| 14 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 15 | The dacha was owned by a doctor who , Vasili reasoned , would be able to snap Lena out of her trance ; then the two of them could set off for Tula on the banks of the River Don where they would lie low until , with time , the investigation wound down . |
| 16 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 17 | And then she could go off to Australia with a real crime on her conscience . |
| 18 | I 'd go off to work , and she 'd look at the script and say : ‘ Who are you working with today , what are you doing ? ’ |
| 19 | and we 'd go off to Felixstowe or somewhere but you see we still went away because he had four first class passes a year |
| 20 | Right tell me where you 'd start off with capitals . |
| 21 | But there are all sorts of reasons why we do n't get that news , one guy said well if we wanted to do it I know if we wanted to make the news that , according to the level of human suffering we 'd start off with Ethiopia then we 'd have the Kurdish problem and you know just made a living of disaster areas around the world , he said we might of finished up with a light hearted discussion on the poll tax , you know as the , as the light , the lightener at the end of the news if you like , and our , what news we receive here depends on our perception of the world , but mainly it 's the other way round our perception of the world is , is what , you know what it , or rather the news that we get actually manufactures our perception of the world . |
| 22 | Daisy nearly said Perdita could start off by weight lifting some of her belongings upstairs , but desisted because it was such heaven to be on speaking terms again . |
| 23 | As a kit I was envious of my cousins on the Pembrokeshire coast who could shoot off after school to get in a spot of sailing before tea . |
| 24 | You could turn off for Abergavenny again . |
| 25 | Well then , also at dusk , of course , the other thing that made us more tired than ever , the Air Raid siren used to go off at night , so then the oil rooms are checked , and you can hear it going over , and you know how the German planes used to go , but you could hear it going over and of course in that black-out then , they used to in the moon light bright along the river Severn , we used to hear them going over and we used to think ’ Are they going to Bristol tonight , or Birmingham or Buckingham ; whether you 'd want to know ’ . |
| 26 | It was as if she was n't married ; just as it had been before , going to bed in her pink and white room , setting off for the ‘ Craft Basket ’ at half-past eight in the morning , just as she used to set off for school , home by five thirty , tea , telly , and some needlework to keep herself occupied . |
| 27 | But coming here has made me realize how much time has passed since , as a small boy , we used to set off for dinners and functions . |
| 28 | Also , I lost the green tape that went round the edge so the ball used to shoot off at speed . |
| 29 | After lunch he took her to the shops in the wide , tree-lined avenues , and though from time to time she was out of his sight she had no doubt whatever that he still thought she would rush off to telegraph news to her magazine if she got half a chance . |
| 30 | Still , in a spirit of stoic resignation , we would head off to Weston-super-Mare every couple of years . |