Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue . |
| 2 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 3 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 4 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
| 5 | I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat . |
| 6 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 7 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 8 | Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle . |
| 9 | Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio . |
| 10 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Yes , I stopped off at the |
| 12 | With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left . |
| 13 | I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’ |
| 14 | I turned off to the right . |
| 15 | But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass . |
| 16 | I continued for fifty minutes , alienating the audience more with every gag , until I walked off to the sound of my own footsteps . |
| 17 | I remember thinking how white and cold and still her face looked , without the breeze of thought or sentience , as I stumbled off to the tumult of the ramp . |
| 18 | So I started off with the idea that there 's this little baby in the cradle , he 's completely in the dark and the dark is something really frightening . |
| 19 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
| 20 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 21 | I started off at the s at the start I was er I was getting mouth ulcers , and then well I did n't get them to the severity that I got them with the sulfasalazine |
| 22 | Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there . |
| 23 | I pushed hard and I picked up some places , but then in the bad conditions Lehto caught me and I went off into the wet and that was it . ’ |
| 24 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 25 | He retired to his basket in a huff and I went off to the supermarket in a quandary . |
| 26 | But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses . |
| 27 | So I went off to the er at the show . |
| 28 | I went off to the doctors , she said I had and I was upset |
| 29 | No I went off in the car with They climbed over the fence . |
| 30 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |