Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devout and those with a full itinerary hurry off to the Abbey as the bell tolls for communion . |
| 2 | Hurry off for the bran . |
| 3 | Two clipped young Gurkhas peel off to the side as the Queen stands before the two great thrones , flanked by a clutch of Yeomen of the Guard , pikes resting on their shoulders . |
| 4 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 5 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 6 | Workers observing it and about to leave on their own foraging , immediately fly off in the direction indicated . |
| 7 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 8 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 9 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 10 | Send off for the copies you missed and complete your collection of Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine . |
| 11 | Again , send off for the school prospectus and find out the school 's aims and objectives . |
| 12 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |
| 13 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 14 | THE HARD ONS , raucous Australians on Vinyl Solution , stop off in the UK on their European tour visiting Birmingham Barrel Organ |
| 15 | From this main part smaller wings spread off like the suburbs of a city . |
| 16 | Twenty golfers teed off in the Rex Newsam Memorial Trophy golf outing at Ganstead Park — and when the scores were counted , Paul Robinson was the winner . |
| 17 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 18 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 19 | Cut off at the neck ! |
| 20 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 21 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 22 | This figure includes skin divers , bathers and water skiers , people and vehicles cut off by the tide and casualties who had fallen from cliffs or man-made structures . |
| 23 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 24 | Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land . |
| 25 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 26 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |
| 27 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 28 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 29 | They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 30 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |