Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 2 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 3 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 4 | And he immediately set off for a long Bank Holiday break ! |
| 5 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |
| 6 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 7 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 8 | The boatman scampered across to the opposite gunwale , turned the boat , turned it again and set off on a long glide which took them close in along the bridge . |
| 9 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |