Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 2 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 3 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 4 | It was the last day of shooting and they did n't need us till nine o'clock that morning , so Keenan [ Wynn ] and me went over to the bar and had a couple there and I said , ‘ You know , Keenan , it 's gon na be a long hot day so we 'd better stop off at the drug store and buy a jug . ’ |
| 5 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 6 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |
| 7 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 9 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 10 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 11 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 12 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 13 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |