Example sentences of "off [prep] the [noun] with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 2 | ‘ Then the swan , keeping very low , will fly off through the forest with the ravenous Gruncher hotfoot in pursuit . |
| 3 | Pointer set off through the trees with a loping stride . |
| 4 | ‘ Then , if we 're forward enough , Jinny and Oz can go off for the day with a couple of baskets . |
| 5 | The colonel set off for the airport with the general in custody . |
| 6 | Robert Blackaby rounded off for the boys with a good fourth place in the junior 100m freestyle . |
| 7 | There are countless individual stories encapsulated in the photographs of migrant workers arriving at Continental stations or commuters pouring into the London termini , of the Jews being herded on to trains headed for the death-camps , or of armies departing for half a dozen different wars — the brave , cheerful , youthful faces of a nation 's young men heading off for the rendezvous with destiny . |
| 8 | When the attack ceased they managed to cannibalize parts to get one truck going and set off for the rendezvous with Fraser , only to find nobody there . |
| 9 | He got up and dressed as though in a trance , and set off for the Castle with the hangdog look of a condemned man . |
| 10 | The driver sped off after the accident with his unconscious victim draped across the front of his red BMW . |
| 11 | He had watched all four go off towards the tower with the rain beating down on them . |
| 12 | ‘ I will look after Celia , ’ Liza replied , picking up the telephone , and the calm decisive way in which she handled the situation sent Edna running off up the lane with Bobby , without further demurrence . |
| 13 | And then he was off up the stairs with Wilson , panting behind , trying to fathom the significance of his relief . |
| 14 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 15 | A word to Lucy , and Wycliffe walked off up the path with the boy . |
| 16 | I also used to compare the buzzard to a kite , being allowed to gain height gradually and seeming to grow smaller and smaller until it went out of control and soared off into the distance with the wind . |
| 17 | It was too late , however , and Carrefour ducked , zigzagging off into the darkness with the enhancer clutched in his arms . |
| 18 | Granted , my steatopygous chum is not of an age with the aforementioned silver-haired Lothario who rode off into the sunset with a nifty piece of under-age crumpet strapped to his roofrack , i.e. Gill 's Dad . |
| 19 | She falls in love , but soon realises that her political role is more important , and ends up riding off into the sunset with her troops to join Zapata . |
| 20 | In each she could happily have hopped off into the side-streets with their displays of over-priced gauds but Nils had insisted on timing things right . |
| 21 | They battered us into the bushes , and made off into the forest with the cart and the team and the load , and left us to limp away on foot wherever we would . |
| 22 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 23 | Schott decided to make a break for the main rendezvous point with Stirling , and set off in the 3-tonner with his men . |
| 24 | It was fucking gobble you off in the kitchen with me parents upstairs and stuff like that . |
| 25 | Distillery boss Billy Hamilton fears the worst after Heath was assisted off in the second-half with a torn calf muscle . |
| 26 | After a scuffle , Johnson made off in the taxi with one of the prison officers . |
| 27 | Brynllys has been farmed organically by Rachel 's family since 1942 , but until 1982 all the milk went off in the tanker with everybody else 's , putting the lie to the old chestnut that organic producers must have a premium . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 29 | But the hard work now should pay off in the spring with a fine show of bluebells . |
| 30 | Cardiff will be without their international hooker Ian Watkins , who was sent off in the game with Pontypridd on Boxing Day , and also the Lions three-quarter Mike Hall whose former club Bridgend have not yet granted him a transfer . |