Example sentences of "off into " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 2 | The six competitors sat at the tea tables , together but strangely separate — each gazing at her hands or off into the distance , and never at one another . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you , ’ said Lucy softly , hugged her again and went off into the night . |
| 4 | They are off into the hills and they will hide there as outlaws till the Act is lifted . ’ |
| 5 | But presently the crowd loosened into smaller groups and a good many people went off into the village or set off for outlying farms . |
| 6 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 8 | The October sun dipped into the Atlantic , silhouetting the Paps of Jura as we shoved off into the sound toward Harry 's Island . |
| 9 | So having laid the weight of mystic , creative suffering on Sonya , the novel proceeds to hive it off into its own Epilogue where all strains and difficulties are waved away . |
| 10 | At the back of the machine , on our level , an ingenious device separates out most of the stones : a circular rubber pad revolves below brushes , which are stiff enough to sweep the potatoes off into their special channel , but not rigid enough to dislodge the stones until later . |
| 11 | The farmer 's wife has kindly pressed my kilt and I set off into town with a small group of Commandos , all of us determined to enjoy ourselves , and , of course , to sort out the local French girls . |
| 12 | He would go off into a musing in the outfield . |
| 13 | The play tails off into the cries and inarticulate exclamations where , escaping the situation in which ‘ I got ta use words ’ in their normal sense , language becomes a cry of despair and horror as primal as the ‘ Wah ! |
| 14 | Three or four dropped into the darkness and choc ice wrappers , dead ; a few fluttered aimlessly to rest around us ; some took off into the vast space above . |
| 15 | Her early school reports were peppered with comments , complimentary or judgemental , depending on the teacher : ‘ Margaret has a very active imagination ’ , ‘ Margaret must learn not to go off into day-dreams ’ , ‘ Margaret does not yet seem to have learned the difference between fact and fiction ’ . |
| 16 | The five-speed has a special chamber in the rear casing accessed by a valve which opens when the oil temperature reaches 90deg C. Up to 550cc of oil is bled off into the chamber , which means the increase in depth in the main casing is reduced to 15 to 20mm . |
| 17 | The barrier at the main gate is already open and the two vehicles shoot through and off into the darkness . |
| 18 | She gently turned Omi 's pillow to stop her mild snoring and then drifted off into her own dreamless sleep . |
| 19 | The talk drifted off into technicalities for a while , and then , those disposed of , Nagel told Herr Nordern that he could go . |
| 20 | Then he , too , slipped off into an uneasy sleep , and strange , vivid dreams , in which Lieutenant Werner chased him down endless , war-torn and shattered streets , for ever . |
| 21 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 22 | Beaming , he waves me off into another wintry shower . |
| 23 | After a cursory ‘ Ireland will be free , ’ the politician then adds with glee ‘ but what I really want to say is thank you mother , thank you father , thank you … ’ and heads off into the normal ‘ thank you auntie Doreen ’ award winner 's speech . |
| 24 | The heavy , overripe Season 's End soars plaintively off into the distance , and Holloway Girl has a sort of oceans-and-mountains quality you wo n't find in , say , the music of Debbie Gibson . |
| 25 | Again the track trails off into languishing shivers and cadaverous moans . |
| 26 | The smaller English house does not steer a straight and obvious course of architectural style , but veers off into strange and pleasurable directions like that of ‘ Strawberry Hill ’ Gothic or Victorian ‘ Queen Anne ’ . |
| 27 | AT THE first bend in the narrow lane from Guestwick to Corpusty there are the vestiges of an old carriageway turning off into a field in a south-westerly direction . |
| 28 | With more than $20m-worth of Microsoft shares , Mr Shirley will sail off into the sunset in June , when he plans to retire . |
| 29 | The Indians had been hived off into reserves like national parks for endangered species , where they made plastic souvenirs for tourists . |
| 30 | And he ran off into the trees . |