Example sentences of "and [vb past] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal has been surveyed and laid off like a map ; and the men have been classified in over thirty specialties and twenty rates of pay , from 16 cents to 50 cents an hour . |
| 2 | The location of a builder 's work is continuously changing , and labour is frequently engaged at the commencement of a project and laid off upon completion . |
| 3 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 4 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 5 | WILLIAMS is arrested and led off at BELVILLE 's bidding . ] |
| 6 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 7 | They are generally broadcast with rape in midsummer as a nurse crop for a grass ley , and grazed off before Christmas for fattening lambs . |
| 8 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't need the river — one look at you is enough ! ’ she declared , and stalked off into the trees . |
| 10 | The bearded Hearthware nodded , and stalked off with his younger companions in tow . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll get undressed , ’ she muttered and stalked off behind a bush . |
| 12 | Then he spun on his heel and stalked off round the side of the cart . |
| 13 | Perhaps the unsuccessful divisions can be packaged and sold off to someone who believes they can be made to work . |
| 14 | Now they are to be scrapped and sold off as scrap metal . |
| 15 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 16 | As though this were not enough , a gang of Ugandan footpads then raided the homes of the newly-arrived British police training mission and made off with their video machines — plus their training tapes for the local police on how to prevent burglaries . |
| 17 | Before I could do this someone snatched my handbag and made off with it . |
| 18 | The woman managed to free herself after the men ransacked the house and made off with £90 cash and her car and house keys . |
| 19 | I have seen two crows gang up on a mallard with a brood of young , and , while one bird tormented the duck into chasing it , the other sneaked in and made off with a still struggling duckling in its beak . |
| 20 | He collected the goods and made off with them . |
| 21 | A shifta or brigand had stepped out of the bush , clubbed one of the men and made off with his rifle . |
| 22 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 23 | Early this morning , 3 masked men smashed their car through the window of Fosters Menswear and made off with £3,000 worth of jeans . |
| 24 | Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds . |
| 25 | They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes . |
| 26 | TV raid : Ram raiders smashed a car through the front window of a Granada TV store in Westgate , Guisborough , yesterday at 5.40am and made off with more than £2,000 worth of video recorders . |
| 27 | RAM raiders smashed their way into Debenham 's in Middlesbrough , left sports clothes strewn across the road and made off with clothing worth over £2,000 , Teesside Crown Court heard . |
| 28 | They broke into the house in Scotto Crescent through the patio doors and made off with several ornaments . |
| 29 | Burglars entered a house in Harrison Terrace , Darlington , on Saturday evening and made off with a man 's gold watch valued at £100 and two bottles of whisky . |
| 30 | DARLINGTON police have issued a warning after a man conned his way into a pensioner 's home and made off with £120 from her purse . |