Example sentences of "[conj] head off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 1961 hordes of the city 's small boys believed that the barrel-laden barges were bound for the Spanish Main or headed off to far exotic lands . |
| 2 | Tony and I drag our boats up the beach and head off to the rocks , our balance oddly disturbed by the many hours afloat . |
| 3 | In the kind of yuppy apartment in which they lived , the chimpanzees would signal ‘ GO SINK ’ and head off to the kitchen sink . |
| 4 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 5 | WHY is it that whenever I decide to don salopettes and head off in search of that damned elusive substance — Scottish snow — howling hurricanes decide to renew my acquaintance and pea-soupers that would have done Victorian London proud descend on the mountain ? |
| 6 | By the time we eventually turned to starboard and headed off towards the UK I was most anxious to get home : I was to be the best man at a wedding that day , and I had to get back before high noon , When the dawn really appeared we were lying very sedately over ( and we were not aware of it at the time ) Belgium . |
| 7 | The chauffeur had the night off , he was celebrating down in Basildon , so Babs and I got into my Porsche and headed off to Ealing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As far away from bleeping techno ambience as they are from indie grunge guitars , their debut EP , ‘ This Is Freaky Realistic ’ , strides boldly across four decades ( from Dylan to Da Lench Mob ) , musical genres ( funk , rock , folk , hip-hop and pop ) , and heads off into some hitherto uncharted dimension . |
| 10 | Besides Ermine Street itself , a second road led southwestwards towards Irchester from a gap in the western defences , crossing in the process a further route which runs north-westwards from Ermine Street , roughly parallel with the enclosure , and heads off across the Billing Brook . |
| 11 | Flynn and his pals clean up Dodge only to feel suffocated by a town so decent it ai n't fit for a man to live in and head off in a joke finish for the still-wild Virginia City , which Flynn cleaned up in an unconnected follow-up . |
| 12 | ‘ Run , ’ Vitor instructed , and as Ashley obediently turned and headed off up the drive he sprinted beside her . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll wait , ’ I said , and headed off towards the postroom . |
| 14 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 15 | The first Arctic fox I had ever seen watched me as I arrived at Gullfoss late at night , then turned and headed off with its huge tail laid out behind it . |
| 16 | He had discharged himself on May 30 , borrowed some money from a friend and headed off to East Anglia . |
| 17 | The designer , Sandy Powell , has known Anderson since their first day at St Martin 's when they played truant and headed off to the pub after about 15 minutes . |
| 18 | He pushed her , and headed off on a determined course for somewhere . |
| 19 | Blunset listened carefully , jotting down the odd note in his notebook and headed off down the corridor . |
| 20 | After quite a lot of persuasion and promises of chocolate bars , I finally got back into my canoe and headed off down the river to find my paddle and the rest of the group . |
| 21 | The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity . |