Example sentences of "have [verb] off with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 2 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 3 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 4 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 5 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 6 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 7 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 8 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 9 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 10 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 11 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 12 | She had confided this to Liz in a tearful moment , not long after Jonathan had run off with the Williams girl . |
| 13 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 14 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 15 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 16 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 17 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 18 | Yesterday , Darlington prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate Alan Milburn claimed his party 's lobbying of Durham County Council had paid off with the offer of extra places . |
| 19 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |