Example sentences of "[vb past] off at the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Cornelius stopped off at the telephone box to call Mr Yarrow at his home . |
| 4 | By way of diversion we stopped off at the army 's counter-intelligence headquarters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then she put on a white crash helmet , climbed into her kart and roared off at the Playscape circuit in Clapham , South London . |
| 7 | Her words tailed off at the expression in his eyes . |
| 8 | He broke off at the ring of the doorbell . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An 18-year-old woman post room worker escaped uninjured when the package she was handling went off at the offices which were occupied by SNP demonstrators last week . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within minutes another went off at the Planetarium next-door , followed by two more at the Imperial War museum . |
| 15 | Seconds later , when he marched off at the interval , Gooch got another ovation and handshakes all round from the Australians . |
| 16 | Thomas Hardy described ‘ the Bollard ’ as ‘ the cliff rounded off at the top in vegetation like a forehead with low-grown hair ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner . |
| 19 | She caused a great army to be collected , and she set off at the head of the army to punish Oleg Ban . |