Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards were so drunk they hardly realised they had been outcheated and slunk off to their pallet beds . |
| 2 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 3 | ‘ Run , ’ Vitor instructed , and as Ashley obediently turned and headed off up the drive he sprinted beside her . |
| 4 | But the stranger had already turned and walked off into the night , back along the towpath in the direction from which he 'd come . |
| 5 | The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’ |
| 6 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 7 | Eventually the specification will be completed and signed off by the user department . |
| 8 | George Alexander Gruen was accepted by Winchester School and was about to sit for his Cambridge entrance when he was interned and shipped off to Canada in 1940 . |
| 9 | Apparently he was n't touting for more Pest Control business , rather his tropical iguana had escaped and made off through the undergrowth . |
| 10 | Add to this the pessimism and fear of becoming old , and the result is too often that many older people can become non-participating social individuals , who feel increasingly isolated and cut off from all that is happening around them . |
| 11 | Regional and municipal elections planned for Dec. 6 were held as scheduled and passed off without incident , despite the shadow cast over them by the Nov. 27 abortive military coup , the second attempt during 1992 [ see p. 39185 ] . |
| 12 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 13 | Handcuffed and hauled off to the Los Angeles County jail , he was mug-photoed , fingerprinted and seemingly washed up . |
| 14 | WILLIAMS is arrested and led off at BELVILLE 's bidding . ] |
| 15 | Sukarno , Hatta , their ministers and Sjahrir ( retained as an adviser ) were all arrested and flown off to places of exile . |
| 16 | He imagines he is going to be arrested and whisked off to Siberia . |
| 17 | So when the Klingon mission is fired on and their chancellor killed , Kirk is arrested and carted off with Dr McCoy to an icy prison world . |
| 18 | Perhaps the unsuccessful divisions can be packaged and sold off to someone who believes they can be made to work . |
| 19 | He should stop f—ing around with these crummy songs , write some real ballads , have his knowing smirk surgically removed and piss off to Vegas where they still appreciate a good singer and are willing to pay . |
| 20 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 21 | Now they are to be scrapped and sold off as scrap metal . |
| 22 | An eel of about 1lb swings out , which luckily is only lip hooked and comes off with no trouble . |
| 23 | He does n't want to get up or get dressed and get off to school . |
| 24 | In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old . |
| 25 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |