Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 2 | I 've planned me route , I 'm going down the M six , I need to come off at the spaghetti junction whatever it is , and I 'm going to check me clock and I 'm going allow plenty of time to get there . |
| 3 | However it was , the one he had aimed at did not get out of the way in time and a last-minute attempt to slink off in the wind failed . |
| 4 | Imagine my joy when , slowly , slowly , all by itself , it begins to creep off down the slope … |
| 5 | At the very last minute Nessie handed the pig bucket to Tim , who was sitting at the back with Kevin and the children ready to jump off at the road end . |
| 6 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 7 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 8 | A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road , with fatal consequences . |
| 9 | A child who was not allowed to wander off to the park , would certainly not be allowed to fly off to the planets . |
| 10 | The problem in gearing up investment to shoot off down the experience curve and become the cost leader is that you may be overtaken by technology . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people line the banks of the River Coruh in Eastern Turkey eagerly awaiting three huge river rafts , each with a 24 strong crew , to set off down the rapids . |
| 12 | It was eleven o'clock before all the family were in bed , and two o'clock next morning was the latest time to set off with the beehives . |
| 13 | She was the last passenger to set off across the tracks , laden with parcels from her shopping trip , and the little boy tagging along behind . |
| 14 | But this morning , I must say , I found it quite offensive and it may well have been the urge to demonstrate just how foolish his insinuation had been that caused me to set off up the footpath . |
| 15 | My husband and daughter decide to set off up the hill ‘ to look for America ’ . |
| 16 | Well , so I 'm going to meet him at Temple Meads and we 're going to set off to the Marquis family abode . |
| 17 | It was a suspiciously long letter for someone who seldom wrote any , and when Rain was waiting to set off for the office he was still tapping away at it . |
| 18 | It was time for News on Sunday to set off on the trail of the people and organizations who had theorized about the prospects for a popular left-wing newspaper for so long . |
| 19 | ‘ Guv'nor says you 're to set off on the side nearest him , ’ Bob said briefly . |
| 20 | The Vimy was constructed on February 13 , it was No 13 of the batch , the Vickers crew numbered 13 , the Vimy reached Newfoundland on May 26 ( twice 13 ) , Jack arrived in Newfoundland on May 13 , and because 13 was lucky to him Jack wanted to set off on the attempt on June 13 . |
| 21 | The vendor 's company may be able to carry earlier losses forward to set off against the gain or if the capital assets were bought by the company only within the past few years , it is possible that there may be a loss rather than a gain . |
| 22 | It would have been easier to set off in the daylight but it was n't possible . |
| 23 | This is a free country and people are allowed to sound off about the fur trade , about vivisection , about experimenting with live animals . |
| 24 | Ca n't get enough of them , ’ interrupted Dexter with a broad smile , anxious to push the superintendent off her soapbox before she started to sound off about the worthlessness of most television . |
| 25 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 26 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 27 | I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day . |
| 28 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 29 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 30 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |