Example sentences of "[vb past] off [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 2 | One Saturday morning , without telling anyone of my plan , I boarded a bus and headed off out of the Lesotho capital of Maseru and towards Roma where I knew a witchdoctor lived . |
| 3 | The basket moved off back to the mainland . |
| 4 | The dog immediately began to bark , and made off out of the room . |
| 5 | then him and his mum got off along with the rest of the people what was the driver 's name ? |
| 6 | Huy understood why he had been dropped here , from where a large number of roads led off back to the various parts of the city , but guessed that they had underestimated his knowledge of the twisting muddle of streets that formed the harbour quarter . |
| 7 | He turned off on to the taxiway and followed the green ‘ go ’ lights to a corner away from the main Terminal One . |
| 8 | There was a brief impression of two men stumbling down the track as though they had been hit in the leg , while the man with the pinned arm , having broken the arrow that held him , hurtled off in to the undergrowth . |
| 9 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
| 10 | Froebe stormed off back down the tunnel towards the approaching sound of booted feet , shouting orders all the way . |
| 11 | She shrugged , than scurried off back to the office , showing a lot of thigh . |
| 12 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 13 | Seeing he would not be served for several hours , the mullah went off back to the caravanserai in which he was staying . |
| 14 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 15 | Old paintings that have gold or silver in them and are on gesso ground are often found with the gold leaf or gilding scraped off down to the ground and the exposed gesso painted . |
| 16 | Feeny laughs , whispers , ‘ Cocorico ’ ; they whisper back and she takes up the thread where she left off back in the bathroom : |
| 17 | She ran off up to the house , and managed to get to her room before anyone saw her . |
| 18 | Philip swung the bag at him and the dog ran off down towards the wood-shed . |
| 19 | Bessie nodded , glad for the chance of making her views known to the young mother , and she quickly flounced off out of the kitchen . |
| 20 | A fifty-pound bomb , planted in his fishing boat , exploded as he set off out of the little harbour of Mullaghmore to inspect lobster pots . |
| 21 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 22 | The waiter gave the slightest of bows , turned and set off back to the café . |
| 23 | When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie . |
| 24 | Then she set off back to the library . |
| 25 | She stopped for a moment to brush the dust from her hands and clothes and set off back to the house . |
| 26 | Lina waved cheerfully , as she set off back to the village of Santa Barbara . |
| 27 | After creating the maximum of confusion , they piled into the Lancia and set off back along the road for their rendezvous with the LRDG , accompanied by an Italian whom they had taken prisoner after he had foolishly asked Lewes for a light while the latter was placing a bomb on his truck . |
| 28 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be as quick as I can , ’ he said to Bernice and set off back down the passageway with Rosheen . |