Example sentences of "had [vb pp] off [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 2 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 3 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 4 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 5 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 6 | In a meeting late on Tuesday , the couple agreed the tour had got off to a bad start , upsetting the Koreans . |
| 7 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
| 8 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 9 | Miller 's career in management had got off to a whirlwind start . |
| 10 | She 'd nothing to worry about , especially since that old bitch Mrs Gerard had walked off in a huff . |
| 11 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 12 | Relaxing in the bar of Le Palais after the sweat-soaked teenagers had trooped off into a sunny Autumn afternoon , Waterman explained the strategy behind this latest step in Kylie 's inexorable rise . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
| 14 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |
| 15 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 16 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 17 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 18 | The Severn Trent Water Authority brought the prosecution as the water had run off into a local water course , polluting rivers which boasted some of the finest fishing in the area . |
| 19 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |
| 20 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 21 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 22 | She looked very vulnerable and Emily wished that they had started off on a more pleasant footing . |
| 23 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |
| 24 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |