Example sentences of "have taken off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 2 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 3 | It really does seem to have taken off in the U.S. since its team started losing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 6 | Unnerved by Alejandro 's great roar of laughter , Maldita had taken off into the pampas , somehow miraculously missing rabbit holes and fallen logs as she hurtled along . |
| 7 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 8 | Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 11 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
| 12 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 13 | Three advance hand in hand over irregular ground , the last half-hidden by the rim , and around the other sides ( fig. 115 ) others , some with transparent drapery , have taken off into the air and float free — an imaginative adaptation of the black background to the new idea of spatial setting . |