Example sentences of "and [verb] off [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's get you covered now and back off to sleep . |
| 2 | Once she has capitulated and goes off to gain her daughter 's assent he switches faces , turning to us in the middle of a line : ‘ Bear her my true love 's kiss ; and so , farewell/Relenting fool , and shallow-changing woman ! ’ ( 431–2 ) . |
| 3 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 4 | According to Rowthorn , multinational B 's operating unit in nation state l might be appropriated by the left government and sold off to help provide funds with which to compensate multinational A for the appropriation of its operating unit in nation state 2 ( in order to reduce the chances of direct counter-revolutionary intervention by other states ) . |
| 5 | Some-times the ‘ spiritual people ’ have reacted against the institutional church of their day , and broken off to form a ‘ pure church ’ consisting of themselves and likeminded friends and before long this new church has usually become as encrusted with barnacles as the one from which they broke away . |
| 6 | After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . |
| 7 | On reading such statements , would Ptolemy have seen the error of his ways , instantly recanted and toddled off to join the Copernican revolution ? |
| 8 | ‘ Tank you , ’ he said , being unusually polite , and toddled off to rummage in his toy box which sat in the corner . |
| 9 | see up in the tops there we could see this , sort of , box of Rice Krispies and down , so I went and toddled off to find somebody , and nobody in sight ! |
| 10 | The Inner Man PUSH , PUSH AND PUSH OFF Put your feet up and pour yourself a brandy and soda — women want you out of the delivery room |
| 11 | Here we met country and western singer Dusty Britches ( I kid you not ) , and a bunch of other cowboys , and moseyed off to eat . |
| 12 | The trucks eventually swung into the camp 's orbit and moved off to unload stores . |
| 13 | In time , however , she rose and moved off to sample the hedgerow , stretching her long , white neck to nibble delicately at the tips of the hawthorn . |
| 14 | Alfred started to his feet , but his glad cry of welcome was cut short when Beatrice inclined her stately head in his direction and moved off to sit sandwiched between Auguste Didier and Egbert Rose . |
| 15 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 16 | Sometimes I 'd have to go off and strip off to fight straight after a caddying session , off the course , drop the bag and on to the fairground . |
| 17 | No luck this time , only a couple of redshanks take fright and fly off yelping in alarm , and a female merganser swims among the thongweed , head poking under the water to look for small fish . |
| 18 | Without you white birds would wrench themselves free from my paintings and fly off dripping blood into the night . |
| 19 | The young men split the cattle into two groups and head off to find pasture . |
| 20 | He heaved his snorting , raging mount out of the press of dismounted men , swung him round in a trampling circle to clear ground about him , and drew off to realign his vision and find a just opponent . |
| 21 | He shook his head , then took a plate and wandered off to choose cakes for his tea . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's fine , ’ she said approvingly , and wandered off to begin her own pile twenty yards or so away . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Santerre mumbled and trudged off to join the others . |
| 24 | ‘ He was n't even good at that : he claimed he had found the key to mysterious secrets and hastened off to tell My Lord of Buckingham . ’ |
| 25 | KNIFEMEN forced a man from his car at traffic lights in California , made him strip and drove off leaving him standing in his socks . |
| 26 | The drivers piled them into cars and drove off to return shortly for another load . |
| 27 | At five o'clock that Thursday evening she left her office , noticed sourly that her ‘ boyfriend 's ’ Jaguar was in the car park , and drove off to view a flat that was within her means . |
| 28 | Just as well I 'm not actually present , or little Naomi might find herself picked up , spun three times round the cafe ceiling , and hauled off screaming to some horrendous netherworld . |
| 29 | Realizing this , Randy shook off Mike at the throw-in and raced off to level the score . |
| 30 | Entering the small church at Chivay at the head of the Colca Canyon , children had jumped out of two alcoves and run off laughing . |