Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] off with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 2 | Usually he got palmed off with the Mile End Road , stabbings in Chinatown , Lascars , opium dens — you name it , Stitch was on the case . |
| 3 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 4 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 5 | She had confided this to Liz in a tearful moment , not long after Jonathan had run off with the Williams girl . |
| 6 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 7 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 8 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 9 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 10 | Yesterday , Darlington prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate Alan Milburn claimed his party 's lobbying of Durham County Council had paid off with the offer of extra places . |
| 11 | When he retired from the RAF he remained a most active civilian doctor on the staff at Halton and continued to rush off with the ‘ go-team ’ in response to any call from the AIB duty co-ordinator for some years afterwards . |