Example sentences of "[verb] off along " in BNC.
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| 1 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 2 | Resolving to ‘ quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home ’ , he headed off along the North African coast in the direction of Mecca , driven onwards by what he described as ‘ an overmastering impulse from within' . |
| 3 | That area should now be hived off along the line delineated in Map B. |
| 4 | The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance . |
| 5 | He moved off along the shelves , reading as he went . |
| 6 | Lissa pressed her fingertips to the window-pane , as though in some way that would keep him near to her , but the ambulance moved off along the road and the fragile connection was severed . |
| 7 | Then the line of vehicles pulled away one by one , forming a loose convoy as they moved off along the deserted main street , heading for the edge of town . |
| 8 | Tal and the Zodiac Twins had moved off along the quay , between the piles of crates and drums , out of sight . |
| 9 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 10 | But Marie , although she had not been paying attention to his words , had been thinking , her mind wandering off along a track of its own . |
| 11 | She made off along a long marble-floored corridor . |
| 12 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 13 | The aperture is broken off along one such suture , giving the specimen a pointed margin . |
| 14 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 15 | … the dimension of time has been shattered , we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears . |
| 16 | Getting to her feet , Rachaela saw her from the window , dawdling off along the road towards school . |
| 17 | They 're marking off along here , erm every square is two , say , |
| 18 | ‘ Oh … um , of course it is , ’ said the embarrassed doctor , hurrying off along the corridor . |
| 19 | I kept to my itinerary , turning off along the Achiltibuie road , passing below the serrated skyline of Stac Polly , its upper rocks tinged pink as the sun rose over the horizon . |
| 20 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 21 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |
| 22 | Then Ockleton turned off along a narrow lane and , a few moments later , they pulled up by the church . |
| 23 | Shortly afterwards Cinzia turned off along an unpaved minor road . |
| 24 | ‘ Serves you right ! ’ shouted Dick , and snatching up the rope raced off along the path , closely followed by Chuck . |
| 25 | The police had blocked this way and the marchers set off along Duke Street , trying to find another way onto the bridge . |
| 26 | But at least they had the car and , forcing one of the Germans to drive , they set off along the coast road towards Mersa Brega . |
| 27 | He examined the gallery , then set off along the left-hand corridor where the men 's bedrooms were . |
| 28 | They set off along the coast of Venezuela and Colombia , south to Panama , past Costa Rica and Nicaragua , until finally they reached Honduras , their intended destination . |
| 29 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
| 30 | An access road branches off along the lochside to serve an oilrig construction unit , the weird contraptions of which are a disfigurement one hopes will be temporary . |