Example sentences of "and [vb base] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 2 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 3 | However , the real action is when you jump into the cockpit and zoom off down the runway to strike a blow against the evil Quadaffi . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 5 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 6 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 7 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 8 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 9 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 10 | Rome , unlike Avignon ( and , indeed , many other cities ) was inconveniently placed for easy relations with most of Europe and cut off from the north-west , where the papacy 's influence was strongest , by the great mountain range of the Alps . |
| 11 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 12 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 13 | They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction . |
| 14 | Not to mention every day of the week when you climb on that evil machine and ride off into the sunset ! ’ |
| 15 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 16 | The eggs remain in the damp sand , safe from marine predators , until they hatch out fifteen days later and swim off on the next high spring tide . |
| 17 | Although at first it may prove excitable and run off around the garden , the puppy should soon return to you . |
| 18 | The horses lose interest and sashay off into the night . |
| 19 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 20 | Take a 79 , 24 or a 51A , B or C , bus going southwards and get off on the South Circular Road , Kilmainham . |
| 21 | Get on the train and get off at the third [ or fourth or fifth ] stop . |
| 22 | Ossie and Tito steal him back and set off for the wild reaches of western Ireland with Byrne , Kelly and their friend Kathleen ( Barkin ) in hot pursuit . |
| 23 | Sometimes a little block of five or six men would detach itself from the larger mass and drift off in the direction of the track . |
| 24 | Thanks to the rank stupidity of Steve Gillery 's bride-to-be , he had to hold his stag night on Saturday morning and rush off to the ceremony during half-time in the afternoon . |
| 25 | This will be set to illuminate the tank during the early part of the day , and switch off in the evening when I want to see the fish . |
| 26 | The words just wo n't come any more , so I 'm going to put my biro down and go off to the post . |
| 27 | We 'd camp next to the meeting and go off to the pub on the Saturday night , halfway through the decathlon . |
| 28 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 29 | When a strong concentration of sodium chloride is placed near to paramecium they turn and go off in the opposite direction . |
| 30 | I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe . |