Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was astonished , and deeply shocked , that they should have gone off with Guido 's speedboat . |
| 2 | If his tutor and his mother had not restrained him despite his desire , The boy , as boys will , would have rushed off on foot . |
| 3 | So that 's great but we started off with three there and we should have started off with E. So through imme a this this is intensely repetitive so that you can you 're building it up , you 're sort of doing it with numbers and then you 're doing it more |
| 4 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 5 | you 'd say , Well he must have started off with X cubed . |
| 6 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 7 | She turned in search of Luke but he must have taken off at Caroline 's approach . |
| 8 | She must 'ave turned off at t'top of your other path . |
| 9 | You may get fobbed off with excuses four or five times , but if you can continue with the repetition in a controlled way without losing your temper , coupled with reasoning , it is a very powerful way of getting what you want . |
| 10 | Yeah I tell myself that , that they do n't get taken off in nature so I leave them |