Example sentences of "and [verb] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The location of a builder 's work is continuously changing , and labour is frequently engaged at the commencement of a project and laid off upon completion . |
| 2 | Gilles Peyroulet is opening a new space on 16 January at 7 rue Debelleyme and kicks off with sculpture by Jurgen Albrecht , simple geometric forms of paper and card which reflect and absorb light . |
| 3 | WILLIAMS is arrested and led off at BELVILLE 's bidding . ] |
| 4 | They are generally broadcast with rape in midsummer as a nurse crop for a grass ley , and grazed off before Christmas for fattening lambs . |
| 5 | Nathan gets and goes off in search of somewhere quiet , clutching a toilet roll and anxious anticipations . |
| 6 | Now they are to be scrapped and sold off as scrap metal . |
| 7 | Early this morning , 3 masked men smashed their car through the window of Fosters Menswear and made off with £3,000 worth of jeans . |
| 8 | RAM raiders smashed their way into Debenham 's in Middlesbrough , left sports clothes strewn across the road and made off with clothing worth over £2,000 , Teesside Crown Court heard . |
| 9 | DARLINGTON police have issued a warning after a man conned his way into a pensioner 's home and made off with £120 from her purse . |
| 10 | The woman managed to free herself after the men ransacked the house and made off with £90 cash and her car and house keys . |
| 11 | Whitby police are looking for thieves who preyed on an elderly woman living alone and made off with family heirlooms worth £15,000 . |
| 12 | Colin Marron forced his way into the Tam O'Shanter in Lawrence Street , York and made off with £171 worth of cigarettes . |
| 13 | He did not take it too seriously , but nonetheless he wheeled his pony and made off at speed , back towards the fringes of Clocaenog , where he had passed the last of the prince 's watch . |
| 14 | ‘ As the Prussians came up , the coachman unhitched the horses , and made off towards Genappe . |
| 15 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
| 16 | Seb hurriedly threw a saddle on Romni and rode off across country . |
| 17 | At Christmas William Marshal , loudly protesting his innocence , left his master 's service and rode off in search of fresh tournaments . |
| 18 | Regional and municipal elections planned for Dec. 6 were held as scheduled and passed off without incident , despite the shadow cast over them by the Nov. 27 abortive military coup , the second attempt during 1992 [ see p. 39185 ] . |
| 19 | We got on the Circle Line with a bag of sulphate and went round and round and got off at Liverpool Street . |
| 20 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 21 | Sukarno , Hatta , their ministers and Sjahrir ( retained as an adviser ) were all arrested and flown off to places of exile . |
| 22 | At the last minute the parent would abandon its charade and fly off to safety . |
| 23 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 24 | It was a gentle pull up Lovely Seat to the cairn , but again the June winds of our English summer were too cold for anything but a brief look over to Shunner and south to Dodd Fell and the distinct hump of Ingleborough before taking a compass bearing and walking off towards Hardraw . |
| 25 | William , though himself without a helmet , fought like a lion to avenge his uncle 's death but was eventually overborne by weight of numbers as well as by another sword thrust from behind — and carried off into captivity . |
| 26 | The chauffeur had the night off , he was celebrating down in Basildon , so Babs and I got into my Porsche and headed off to Ealing . |
| 27 | Soon Yvonne will be packing her bags and jetting off to Greece for a holiday in the sun . |
| 28 | He managed to sleep for a couple of hours , then rose and wandered off to Franco 's bar to see if Maidstone was there . |
| 29 | As Magee watched she tottered down the steps and wandered off down Duncannon Street in the direction of the Strand . |
| 30 | ‘ You have been sacrificed , martyred and cut off in mid-satisfaction , but see it as a noble act for the good of a world-renowned radio station that is admired as far away as Irkutsk , Tristan da Cunha and ( after the recent never-ending Arctic festival ) Greenland . |