Example sentences of "off down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dog at his heels as he went off down the road . |
| 2 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 3 | The refrain tailed off down the street : |
| 4 | We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . |
| 5 | George reluctantly accepted the situation and with a mouthful of curses we drove off down the now dusty road towards the Orne . |
| 6 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 7 | They switched on the car 's headlights as a beacon ; but , all of a sudden , as the Prince and his companions were half-way across the water , the lights swung round and moved away as the vehicle set off down the glen . |
| 8 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said the Princess , and set off down the stairs at a spanking pace . |
| 9 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 10 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
| 11 | Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane . |
| 12 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 13 | The other three turned and bolted off down the stairs . |
| 14 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 15 | Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ? |
| 16 | Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed . |
| 17 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 18 | Dorothea did not even mind when she lost her grip and wandered off down the avenues of the past , for sometimes she could accompany her , at any rate part of the way , and |
| 19 | Gaily selected the tools and took them off down the path to the back-gate . |
| 20 | Triumphant , he slammed the door and marched off down the corridor to his own cosy rooms , smugly requesting his domestic unit to prepare him a toasted sandwich and hot coffee . |
| 21 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 22 | Once I had unpacked , I set off down the lane to have a look at the Round Tower before dark . |
| 23 | Bright and early next morning , I set off down the lane to work , my drawing pad and pens in my jauntily swinging plastic bag . |
| 24 | Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain . |
| 25 | Alexander ran off down the hall and vanished into the sitting-room . |
| 26 | Mr McDoodle pulled on the reins and they headed off down the drive , past the old hanging tree and out onto the bumpy road . |
| 27 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 28 | He laughed , tucked the charango under his arm and ran off down the track . |
| 29 | We started off down the hill towards the police station ; the culprit , as we saw him , leading the four gringos . |
| 30 | Looking anxiously behind them , the children set off down the street with the nanny . |