Example sentences of "have [vb pp] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 2 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 3 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 4 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ So the bomb must have gone off in the committee room . |
| 6 | It is a remote and inaccessible area and he would never have gone off in the dark . |
| 7 | I 'd have cast off in the Angharad to fetch you the minute I knew you were there ! ’ |
| 8 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 9 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 10 | It really does seem to have taken off in the U.S. since its team started losing . |
| 11 | This management style appears to have paid off in the long and short terms . |
| 12 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 13 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 14 | More or less deliberately , what Lord Robert Cecil had pulled off in the peace Ballot was an irresistible fusion of pacifism and patriotism . |
| 15 | The nearest town was some distance away and Alain had driven off in the car . |
| 16 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 17 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 18 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 19 | John 's fucked off in the afternoon to a car auction . |
| 20 | The strong tactics have paid off in the case of the prison officers , who went back to work last week , but there is increasing concern on how to deal with the tax collectors . |