Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 2 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 3 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 4 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 5 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 6 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 7 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 8 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 9 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 10 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 11 | Harriet 's voice had grown bleaker as she spoke and finally broke off on a clipped note of finality . |
| 12 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 13 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 14 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 15 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 16 | It just took off like a rocket from there . |
| 17 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 18 | Elsewhere , Hastings Pier was packed on Friday for Splash ( rechristened by one DJ present as ‘ the all-England gurning contest ’ ) , Saturday 's country house alldayer near Bournemouth was generally acclaimed , while on Sunday night London 's Strut finally took off with a full turn-out for guest DJ Danny Rampling . |
| 19 | Just swerved off into the erm |
| 20 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 21 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 22 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 23 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 24 | Robin Engelman , who coped patiently with the percussion part here , had a marginally less exciting time in Bruce Mather 's Gatinara , where easy-going alternations of viola and marimba once took off in a bout of vigorous hocketing , but not for long . |
| 25 | The election campaign also got off to a poor start . |
| 26 | I remembered the name of the manufacturer who 'd said ‘ yes ’ on the telephone , and two days later drove off in the Metro and picked out my coffin . |
| 27 | The script was stodgy , with the only highlights being the video of the Duffer of St George at work ( a classic ) , and watching the fashion elite go quiet when Marks & Spencer nearly walked off with an award . |
| 28 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 29 | They nearly ran off with a second too . |
| 30 | There were some heart-stopping moments in the Town goalmouth , but they survived and nearly ran off with a win . |