Example sentences of "i [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I might have escaped her vigilance when I made off with the boat , but my wails of distress soon brought her running to the rescue .
2 I crept off down a little path through curling bracken .
3 I push off into the bright sunshine , and across the playground .
4 I got off with a lot of things .
5 he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog .
6 I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now .
7 Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am .
8 I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section .
9 I moved off to the PGA caravan to have words with Sally about our tentative arrangement for dinner at her flat .
10 I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines .
11 Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel .
12 Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle .
13 I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday .
14 Taking my leave , I headed off for the developing tanks at my studio .
15 I was thoughtful as I headed off in the opposite direction .
16 Yes , I stopped off at the
17 I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones .
18 After my 20 minutes , I came off in a muck sweat .
19 shall I finish off after the break ?
20 ‘ Bless my soul , ’ said Calatin in a deep rumbling voice , ‘ bless my soul , I believe I dropped off for a while .
21 With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left .
22 Then I run off in a storm to see an astrologer .
23 I turned off to the right through the row of trees , and just as I was meandering past thy rhododendrons I shouted , ‘ Hell and damnation ! ’
24 I turned off to the right .
25 But this was an A-road and I wanted to keep mainly to the minor routes , so half-way up I turned off behind the Ponderosa Cafe and joined the Old Horseshoe Pass .
26 I ca n't see what Andy 's doing because the man 's body is in the way , but then Andy hits into him , bowling him backwards and he shouts and I wriggle away from them ; I scramble off through the ferns on all fours and then stop and look back and the man 's got Andy , he 's struggling with him , leaning over him , folding him , pressing him down , and Andy 's breathing hard , grunting , trying to break free .
27 I kick off with an idea for a shady border under a deciduous tree .
28 I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme .
29 What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up .
30 So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey .
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