Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 5 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 7 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 8 | Scunthorpe 's Stevenson was cautioned and then sent off in the space of 60 seconds , and while Burnley tried to take advantage the visiting 10 seemed as vulnerable as green bottles . |
| 9 | She looked at him wide-eyed for a second , then ran off in the same direction as Isay . |
| 10 | It bumped into his foot , beeped at him , and then bustled off in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |