Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 2 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 3 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 4 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 5 | At 8.30 am sharp they " escaped " from the main gate of the Zoo and made off in different directions , all with the purpose of raising as much money as possible for WWF . |
| 6 | The girls walked off in one direction to some hedges on the far side , leaving George with Willie and Zach . |
| 7 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 8 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 9 | They must have chased them out of the yard and made sure they took off in all directions . |
| 10 | It forked off in two directions . |
| 11 | The Bushman was following it , but suddenly he swerved aside and he went off in another direction and I followed him , although I could clearly see the buffalo hoofmarks leading off in the opposite way . |
| 12 | Tuppe and Cornelius followed the pointing fingers and set off in different directions . |
| 13 | In the meantime the women 's liberation movement was changing rapidly ; expanding , feminists were becoming active in a whole range of trade union activities , setting up women 's centres , refuges for battered wives , all kinds of research , discussion … the group , although it continued to meet , give or take a member or two , for a further four years , was a friendship , a support group of women who had struggled through to political consciousness together , and whose own political allegiances sparked off in many directions : a gay commune , further teaching , trade union organising , membership of one of the numerous revolutionary left-wing groupings which flourished in the seventies , involved in producing feminist journals . |