Example sentences of "and [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Asian security man unlocked the door to the documentary department office and loped off down the corridor with a distracted smile on his face . |
| 32 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 33 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 34 | Then , throwing her a wink , he turned and moved off into the crowd . |
| 35 | So they collected their actors and actresses , a film crew of twelve and their livestock and moved off to the Utah desert to begin filming . |
| 36 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 37 | He glanced up at the sky and remarked : ‘ There 's nowhere to go at this time of night ’ , at which I said that I would be going home , and moved off to the right . |
| 38 | Mr. Decker grinned weakly , made a vague gesture with his hand and moved off down the aisle to buy an ice cream . |
| 39 | He touched the American 's elbow and moved off in the direction of a single Ming vase standing on a pedestal nearby . |
| 40 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 41 | Jenna snapped , spinning away and storming off towards the house . |
| 42 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 43 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 44 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 45 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 46 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 47 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 48 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 49 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 50 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 51 | That afternoon , while the same wind , now freshened , still blew across the island and off into the North Sea , Esmerelda and I went out as usual , and stopped off at the shed to pick up the dismantled kite . |
| 52 | Many 's the night I 've walked back late from town and stopped off in the New Earswick hedgerows to supply them some used beer … |
| 53 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 54 | The other three turned and bolted off down the stairs . |
| 55 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 56 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 57 | She struggled to her feet , her only thought to avoid discovery , and staggered off into the darkness . |
| 58 | ‘ I said , ‘ Get lost ’ , and pushed past him and staggered off down the corridor . |
| 59 | ‘ Especially when they see you getting into your Porsche , and driving off to the flat you own in Putney ? ’ |
| 60 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |