Example sentences of "had [vb pp] off from the " in BNC.
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1 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
2 | The men on board the ‘ Firefly , ’ a 25-foot catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
3 | The men aboard Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the Isle of Man on the return leg of the race when part of the vessel flooded . |
4 | The men on board the Firefly , a 25ft catamaran , had set off from the island on the return leg of the race when their craft began to ship water and threatened to founder . |
5 | And that one that had wandered off from the rest it became aware that it was lost . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
8 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |