Example sentences of "[vb past] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We needed a compass bearing to ensure we headed off in the right direction , a reminder that even a ‘ valley ’ walk can land the unwary in difficulties . |
| 2 | I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Storey moved off in the general direction of young Lindy . |
| 4 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 5 | With a winning smile at a rather bemused young man , she dragged him up to dance , and every time she saw Feargal she made off in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough full back Gary Parkinson limped off in the final minute with an ankle injury . |
| 7 | The tramp tossed the empty cup away and shuffled off in the other direction . |
| 8 | Julie fell dead beneath a tree , its lower branches hacked off in the frenzied attack . |
| 9 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 10 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 11 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | All the stack-pipes fell off in the Daily Express Trophy at Silverstone , but Graham won again and that race carried a lot of money . |
| 13 | Said Jolosa : ‘ It is bad being the first player sent off in the new league , but I was a marked man from the start . |
| 14 | ‘ Plancius ’ was anchored some way offshore because of shallow water and reefs , so when the first party went off in the inflatable , we could see no land at all and had to steer by compass . |
| 15 | The bomb went off in the public gallery , destroying the visitors ' area and blowing a hole through an external wall . |
| 16 | However , it soon pulled itself together and shot off in the other direction — no doubt grateful of the intervention which gave its release . |
| 17 | Suddenly , one of the rockets shot off in the wrong direction , dived on the crowd and exploded among them . |
| 18 | So League teams kicked off in the usual way , while the guns blazed across the Channel . |
| 19 | And yet — what kind of a monster would he be if he ran off in the opposite direction ? |
| 20 | After a few moments she climbed down to the space station and ran off in the opposite direction to the shapechanger . |
| 21 | Every male from the neighbouring estancias , except Luke , who was off moving the cattle , seemed to be gathered round the paddock to watch her as she set off in the milky , misty morning light towards a row of poplar trees . |
| 22 | The jeep force set off in the late afternoon of 26 July , with about forty miles to cover to the coastal plain . |
| 23 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 24 | Sandison himself set off in the opposite direction , towards his pensione . |
| 25 | He also sped off across Dartmoor in search of Tamara but , totally confused , after running wildly around , set off in the wrong direction , heading north between gently wooded hills to reach the Atlantic . |
| 26 | It bumped into his foot , beeped at him , and then bustled off in the opposite direction . |