Example sentences of "taken off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 2 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 3 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 4 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 9 | Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park . |