Example sentences of "[vb past] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 2 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 3 | We moved off in the direction of the crossroads , the scene of yesterday 's action . |
| 4 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 5 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 6 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 7 | The Blades lost talented youngster Dane Whitehouse — stretchered off in the first-half — and then Republic of Ireland goalkeeper Alan Kelly was led from the field with a face wound . |
| 8 | Disappointingly , the policemen took no notice of the blood , but drove off in the direction the robbers had taken , with what result I can not say . |
| 9 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 10 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 11 | Shoes came off in the water . |
| 12 | Meetings could be banned and the townships sealed off in the event of new disturbances . |
| 13 | I touched my cap and strolled off in the direction of the Old Kent Road . |
| 14 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he added , ‘ I 've seen my own stuff flogged off in the market here . |
| 15 | Detectives believe the thieves made off in the direction of Barnwell Place and are eager to hear from anyone who might have seen them . |
| 16 | After a scuffle , Johnson made off in the taxi with one of the prison officers . |
| 17 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 18 | They squelched off in the direction of Geoffrey 's rooms and a bottle of Rémy Martin . |
| 19 | You can tell us where we are , paid off in the year conservatory . |
| 20 | The DUP says that Republican violence paid off in the disarming of the RUC , the disbanding of the B Specials , the banning of Orange , Black and Apprentice Boys ' parades resulting in the imprisonment of Loyalists , the overthrow of Ulster 's parliament , the plan for talks with Dublin to change the status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom , the abolishing of the Oath of Allegiance to the Queen in the new Assembly and Executive , the making of such oaths illegal for appointment to government boards , the removal of the Governor , the obliteration of ‘ On Her Majesty 's Service ’ from official paid envelopes , the attempt to destroy democracy by power-sharing which was a blow at the secrecy of the ballot box and an insult to British citizenship and standards , the proposal to set up machinery for the transfer of Northern Ireland 's powers to a body or bodies in or with the Irish Republic , and the continued existence of areas in Northern Ireland where the Queen 's writ did not effectually run . |
| 21 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 22 | Those were the days when shops were shops and supermarkets had n't been invented , days of dark wood counters and lots of assistants , when carrier bags were always made of brown paper with string handles that ripped off in the rain . |
| 23 | They descended the switchback road and turned off in the valley towards the church ; which stood in its walled graveyard , solid , square-towered . |
| 24 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 26 | Anyway , Hamnett , it must have been , walked off in the direction indicated and did n't return . |
| 27 | ‘ Have a nice time , and behave yourselves , ’ he concluded , and walked off in the direction of the garden . |
| 28 | So , not wanting to hurt Sam any more for this ill-thought-out gesture of his , she broke his grip on her wrist and , turning on her heel , walked off in the direction of Trouville . |
| 29 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 30 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |