Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 2 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 3 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 4 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 5 | Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank . |
| 6 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 7 | There was little noise from outside the windows and we appeared cut off from the city and from civilian life in general ; I lay in bed and pulled the sheets up over my nose . |
| 8 | Eric Cantona got sent off after the match and then was assaulted by a Turkish riot policeman . |
| 9 | As soon as Dennis had roared off towards the offices of Osiris Management Services I strolled down Ramillies Drive to the Parsonage and rang the bell . |
| 10 | The attendant , now adding a sulk to his sullenness , had shuffled off to the kitchen area . |
| 11 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 12 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 13 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 14 | One of the two ribbon cables was damaged , a wire had broken off at the joint between the cable and the plug , and both were rather short making installation harder than it should have been . |
| 15 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 16 | It had seemed to slow down briefly after the impact , as if the driver was considering whether to stop or not , and then had accelerated off into the night . |
| 17 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 18 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 19 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 20 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 21 | Tal and the Zodiac Twins had moved off along the quay , between the piles of crates and drums , out of sight . |
| 22 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 23 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes . |
| 26 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 27 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 28 | More or less deliberately , what Lord Robert Cecil had pulled off in the peace Ballot was an irresistible fusion of pacifism and patriotism . |
| 29 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |
| 30 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |