Example sentences of "[vb past] off at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 2 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 3 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 4 | Cornelius stopped off at the telephone box to call Mr Yarrow at his home . |
| 5 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 6 | On the way home we stopped off at an alcohol centre and had a pint . |
| 7 | The princess , in a royal purple suit-dress , pushed on in front to sign the visitors ' book while the prince wandered off at the end , leaving his wife in his wake . |
| 8 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 9 | with unusual curtness and drove off at a speed which suggested that Darren was about to enjoy a gratifyingly exciting ride . |
| 10 | As they left the turn the French paddled off at a tangent and tried to run the Romanians into the landing pontoon in front of all the VIPs . |
| 11 | after a swift , furtive glance at them , jumped the ditch on the other side of the lane and made off at a run over the fen . |
| 12 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 13 | He broke off at the ring of the doorbell . |
| 14 | You started off at the beginning of your beat — set out on the north side of Lime Street — took a quarter of an hour to walk round and try all the locks . |
| 15 | Erm now Alton for example started off at the beginning of the year with four and they 're now at thirty three very s very impressive how much they , them will succeed I do n't know but some other good news on that front is that erm the average age of our consultants overall is now thirty one , whereas three years ago it was twe below twenty one . |
| 16 | It meant that she started off at an advantage , for as soon as they imagined they had caused her misery they found that they were only confirming her grim and ribald idea of the way things would always be . |
| 17 | Jezrael lurched stiffly to her feet and lumbered off at a run . |
| 18 | Feeling the wagon level again , it took off at a trot . |
| 19 | I walked up to the little animal but he took off at a speed which made light of his infirmity . |
| 20 | The golden prize went to Ethiopia 's Derartu Tulu , who took off at the bell to leave South African gazelle Elana Meyer in the silver medal position . |
| 21 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 22 | Loretta 's mind went off at a tangent . |
| 23 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 24 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 25 | defendant with handicap of 24 hit ball with toe of his golf club , so that it went off at an angle of 30 degrees . |
| 26 | Seconds later , when he marched off at the interval , Gooch got another ovation and handshakes all round from the Australians . |
| 27 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
| 28 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 29 | He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner . |
| 30 | The boy dropped the halter he was holding and set off at a run through the gateway and towards the big house . |