Example sentences of "off down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cameron turned off down a churned , peaty track towards the wooden roofs and palings of the sawmill . |
| 2 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 3 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 4 | Puzzling over this , I nearly miss a water rail which scuttles off down a drainage ditch towards the loch of Westsandwick . |
| 5 | A short distance south of Trondheim we turned off down a side road to find a quiet spot for lunch , and in a grove of trees we saw redwing , fieldfare and chaffinch feeding young while siskin , blackcap , chiffchaff and willow warbler were singing all around us . |
| 6 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 7 | She ushered them into deep leather chairs , offered Edward a copy of the Financial Times ( which he took , cravenly ) and pranced off down a corridor . |
| 8 | The two men set off down a narrow path which traversed the slope diagonally . |
| 9 | Then he nudged Wa again , and sent him scurrying off down a nearby alley into the heart of the city . |
| 10 | The wings became a blur and Twoflower was jerked back as the dragon veered and sped off down a side corridor like a gnat-crazed swallow . |
| 11 | The girl curtsied again before scuttling off down a nearby passage . |
| 12 | Unable to free the bridge by himself he blamed his wife and cleared off down a dirt track . |
| 13 | And then the moment of truth as the eager new recruits take the controls and move off down a half-mile of track alongside the British Rail line . |
| 14 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 15 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 16 | Tim loped off down an alleyway lined with pet food , and halted before a tier of shelves of bottles , brown and red bottles , ochre and copper and olive-green . |
| 17 | And when he felt he could n't walk another step , or wanted to question the wisdom of setting off down an unlit passage , he could always say Elaine 's so tired or Elaine 's a bit nervous . |
| 18 | When they were challenged from a window by the owner of the car they ran off down an alleyway . |
| 19 | Dog at his heels as he went off down the road . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The refrain tailed off down the street : |
| 22 | We roared off down the road from the village in the direction of the River Orne . |
| 23 | George reluctantly accepted the situation and with a mouthful of curses we drove off down the now dusty road towards the Orne . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ said the Princess , and set off down the stairs at a spanking pace . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And so they merely shook hands , and she walked off down the garden path to her door . |
| 29 | Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane . |
| 30 | 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 . |