Example sentences of "have [verb] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Take a look behind , nephew , ’ came the answer , ‘ and you will see that already the litter carrying the prince has turned off for Westminster ! ’ |
| 2 | THE postponed replay of a battle over a five-a-side football complex has kicked off in earnest . |
| 3 | Your cousin Henry has set off for Alma Ata in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan , hoping to finance himself by selling articles to The Spectator , where he has asked me to use my influence . |
| 4 | His son has gone off to London , and he worries that he may lose touch with him . |
| 5 | Can you believe — Mrs Donovan has run off with Reginald ! |
| 6 | Illicit coca cultivation has dropped in the Chapare but has taken off in Bolivia 's Beni valley and across the border in Brazil and Peru . |
| 7 | As you know he is very confused and if he has wandered off by mistake who knows what will happen to him . |
| 8 | ‘ Bonaparte 's got no stomach for the fight : knows we 're too strong for him , and has cleared off under cover of the mist . ’ |
| 9 | Lara 's ma — Rula Lenska — has to rush off to rehearsal as soon as the photo session 's wrapped up . |
| 10 | He recalled his first day in the area , when he 'd stopped off at Conon Bridge to browse around a sporting store and listen to the gossip . |
| 11 | Simply left a note to say she 'd gone off with Thomas . |
| 12 | Pity she 'd gone off to Meath . |
| 13 | It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday . |
| 14 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 15 | I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere . |
| 16 | I 'm afraid Freddie 's had to dash off to Scotland . |
| 17 | He 'd had to break off for lack of an English verb that he remembered as soon as Bacci pronounced it . |
| 18 | The rest would have to go off as wage-labourers to the Lowlands . |
| 19 | What this means to you or me is that if we happen to fancy a cup of the most expensive tea in the world , we would have to hurry off to Knightsbridge this month and shell out £35 for a quarter of a pound of Indian brew named Castleton . |
| 20 | But she was astonished , and deeply shocked , that they should have gone off with Guido 's speedboat . |
| 21 | If his tutor and his mother had not restrained him despite his desire , The boy , as boys will , would have rushed off on foot . |
| 22 | So that 's great but we started off with three there and we should have started off with E. So through imme a this this is intensely repetitive so that you can you 're building it up , you 're sort of doing it with numbers and then you 're doing it more |
| 23 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 24 | you 'd say , Well he must have started off with X cubed . |
| 25 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 26 | She turned in search of Luke but he must have taken off at Caroline 's approach . |
| 27 | ‘ There were four major air disasters last year , all four planes involved having taken off from airports which were regarded as having maximum security . |
| 28 | US donations are believed to have fallen off in part as a result of the organization 's opposition to the Gulf War . |
| 29 | They are believed to have made off with silverware and they also took a necklace which the woman was wearing . |
| 30 | The reconstruction retraced the couple 's movements from 7pm when they are thought to have set off from Mrs Arnold 's flat in Shernhall Road , Walthamstow , east London . |