Example sentences of "and [vb past] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 2 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 3 | They broke into the house in Scotto Crescent through the patio doors and made off with several ornaments . |
| 4 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 5 | There was little danger that his pictures ( which were valued at hundreds of pounds ) would devalue the currency or be torn out of their frames and passed off as real banknotes : his jury acquitted after retiring for only ten minutes . |
| 6 | The first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre took place in June and passed off without any major incidents . |
| 7 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 8 | One beltless man , in an official car , signalled to turn right into the car park , saw our photographer , abruptly changed his mind and drove off at high speed down the street . |
| 9 | As other police cars arrived at the scene the two men raced across the central reservation and drove off at high speed to be chased later by PC Whitehouse and WPC Larkin . |
| 10 | He loaded farmhands , ladders , rope and planks into a small lorry , and drove off at top speed towards Windmill Hill , Angela in the seat beside him . |
| 11 | The chain was faulty , and came off at regular intervals . |
| 12 | We went on to do a good matinée performance and came off to thunderous applause and whistles of appreciation . |
| 13 | In the meantime it remains unused and sealed off for much of the year . |
| 14 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 15 | Toilet lanolin , obtainable from any chemist , with its base of an oily substance extracted from wool , is an adequate curative , rubbed well into the leather and polished off after several days . |
| 16 | ‘ Saddled us with another kid and raced off without any plan . ’ |
| 17 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 18 | This time he simply said ‘ It does n't work ’ and walked off to another activity . |
| 19 | this was , this was the night I added minus eight pound to your money , and walked off with eight of it , right ? |
| 20 | Which talks about de organizational development plans , team development plans , personal development plans , and signed off at each |
| 21 | It all seemed to stem from a separation , a fraught time when she was about four , when her mother had been taken seriously ill with some mystery virus and whisked off into Intensive Care . |
| 22 | The interloper gave in and flew off in dizzy flight , back down the ride . |
| 23 | Mr E , however , countered each example with either ‘ it wo n't work with Dave ’ or ‘ I 've tried all this ’ , and switched off at any good idea offered , unable to listen , making himself , like Dave , the only one in the group so different and obstructive . |
| 24 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 25 | Today 's Soviet dissidents are certified as insane and packed off to psychiatric wards . |
| 26 | His impromptu art lectures — one hilarious fancy begetting another , and tossed off like carnival balloons — were guaranteed to draw packed audiences festooned round his dais . ’ |
| 27 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 28 | But he said that the amnesty would not cover players who had been shown the red card and sent off for serious offences during qualifying games . |
| 29 | Lee produced Chelsea 's equaliser after 34 minutes , was booked 10 minutes later for a foul — and sent off after 73 minutes for his second bookable offence , when he kicked the ball away . |
| 30 | Desperately remote though it seems , this forest has in its time been much worked , beech wood having been prized for making oars for ships and sent off in great quantities to the coast . |