Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] a long " in BNC.

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1 She made off along a long marble-floored corridor .
2 And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break !
3 He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets .
4 He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon .
5 The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge .
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