Example sentences of "off up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm off up the pub , babes , ’ said Sandy , ruffling Dionne 's hair . |
| 2 | I was now hot so we filled our water bottle and set off up the track towards to skyline . |
| 3 | I do n't — I just say thank you and goodbye , then I go off up the road . |
| 4 | Barry had gone off up the road on his bike . |
| 5 | But though she walked quickly towards the gate the two girls ran off up the lane . |
| 6 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 7 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 8 | She showed me the way to the Burma Road , and I set off up the wooded slope behind the house . |
| 9 | And then he was off up the stairs with Wilson , panting behind , trying to fathom the significance of his relief . |
| 10 | We 've time to get off up the Garngad . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When darkness fell , the men drove off up the escarpment and made for the rendezvous , spreading themselves out as widely as possible . |
| 13 | But once you have unfolded an ordnance survey map and made the cheese and pickle sandwiches , it 's hard to change your mind , and so on a hot June day I set off up the zig-zagging tourist path from Glen Nevis at ten o'clock in the morning . |
| 14 | Two of us set off up the long path from Aberarder at the mind-bogglingly stupid time of 11.30 a.m . |
| 15 | After a great struggle , I frog-marched her into oilskins and over-trousers , fitted the outboard and set off up the loch , perspiring . |
| 16 | She swung her bottom south-south-west and steered herself off up the path . |
| 17 | Hoomey set off up the hill , half running , so relieved he could have cried . |
| 18 | All the time knowing that while I 'm round the back of a lorry he 's probably scarpered off up the road into limbo . |
| 19 | I set off up the stairs . |
| 20 | The hooves slammed out and with a snort of terror it hurtled off up the path followed by the others . |
| 21 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 22 | Mavis and Walter , pretending ‘ their horse 's welfare meant more to them than eating ’ , set off up the train to eat in the racegoers ' dining car , and so did Angelica , ‘ too upset to sit down ’ . |
| 23 | He ran off up the street , turned a corner , then another , and stopped . |
| 24 | And the car took off up the North End Road before he 'd got the door shut . |
| 25 | Next day , in a classic Boys ' Own move , Neame and two other Britons — Jonathan Tinker and Harry Taylor — set the Sherpas an example by trudging off up the mountain , loaded with supplies . |
| 26 | The car went off up the drift as many times Goblander had gone . |
| 27 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 30 | Distantly , he saw Bodie 's Capri roaring off up the street . |