Example sentences of "off into [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 2 | He would go off into the mountains for days on end . |
| 3 | This road takes you through what I would say was the most savage landscape you are likely to see in the Pyrenees without actually setting off into the mountains on foot , a valley which has rocks where other valleys have trees . |
| 4 | But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom . |
| 5 | Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ? |
| 6 | We are then off into the players lounge for a few beers beforehand , then a few more after . |
| 7 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He seems to have gone off into the wilds of Turkey on some dig or other , and got so interested that he forgot to come back . |
| 9 | They ducked and flinched , the throne tipped , and Artai fell off into the arms of his officers . |
| 10 | and all that , then he took no notice of that , now do n't tip them silly , what the bloody hell you doing that for ? , do n't be so daft , so any way , then Stuart goes off into the showers and turns the showers on |
| 11 | Pushing his way through the bushes along the side of the path , Greg took off into the gardens of Meadowbanks , flanking the fire-fighting operation along the front of the house . |
| 12 | In their eyes the sea curves off into the heavens . |
| 13 | They are off into the hills and they will hide there as outlaws till the Act is lifted . ’ |
| 14 | Drag on the climbing boots , stride off into the hills , and find out for yourself . |
| 15 | However , the imminent arrival of the railway was foreshadowed by an appearance of a spectral train whose large black locomotive was seen rushing along the lonely Highland road with headlights blazing before suddenly veering off into the hills . |
| 16 | The headlights of the Fiat swept from one side of the narrow winding road to the other , picking out an area of ploughed field , a thicket of scrub oaks with last year 's brown leaves still clinging to the branches , an ancient wooden cart fitted with modern lorry tyres , an abandoned barn covered with posters for a dance band called ‘ The Lads of the Adriatic ’ , a dirt track leading off into the hills . |
| 17 | He comes on stage performing ballet steps , pirouettes off into the wings , makes some weird grunting sounds , then reappears . |
| 18 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 19 | ‘ No , you did n't scream until you looked off into the wings . ’ |
| 20 | I would die first — leaving him to die on stage while I went off into the wings . ’ |
| 21 | Without forests and ground cover , the rain simply runs off into the rivers . |
| 22 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 23 | When I have finished , I throw the gun several yards off into the brambles . |
| 24 | At the junction of the Pilgrims Road where one way leads to Birling and the other branches off into the woods there stands the remains of the old Free Chapel of St. Lawrence , which gives its name to the lane running by . |
| 25 | ‘ Why did you go off into the woods ? |
| 26 | Quietly the wolves sloped off into the woods , drooling hungrily . |
| 27 | They turned off into the woods where th'fence ends . |
| 28 | And he ran off into the trees . |
| 29 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 30 | There he goes , off into the trees . ’ |