Example sentences of "[verb] off into the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The thought played over and over in her mind as she waved an absent-minded farewell and drove off into the night alone . |
| 32 | ‘ I thought you were n't jealous and possessive ! ’ she said shakingly as they drove off into the traffic . |
| 33 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 34 | ‘ It has seemed like that , ’ he said sombrely , looking off into the distance . |
| 35 | Bolted off into the forest . |
| 36 | How can the Minister justify the attempt to sell off into the private sector , just a matter of weeks before a general election , what most Londoners rightly regard as the proper seat of London 's government ? |
| 37 | In spite of our scepticism , to our relief the first boat in that area to be investigated proved to match the photograph and we slunk off into the night , doused our lights , and prepared to follow her at a safe distance . |
| 38 | I felt rather like an explorer being seen off into the unknown . |
| 39 | It had seemed to slow down briefly after the impact , as if the driver was considering whether to stop or not , and then had accelerated off into the night . |
| 40 | He put down his glass of tea , lifted the rifle to his shoulder and trudged off into the debris . |
| 41 | Forester waited until the postman had come freewheeling down the track , and then as the momentum was spent and the postman pedalled off into the morning Forester started to move downslope towards the cottages . |
| 42 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 43 | Carefully , I removed the hook ; and then , cradling the trout between cupped hands in the water , I waited until it darted off into the depths . |
| 44 | It whined , backed away with its eyes fixed on Grimma , and then darted off into the darkness . |
| 45 | The dog might not respond readily to their commands , and may simply head off into the distance , possibly looking for you if the territory is familiar . |
| 46 | The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity . |
| 47 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 48 | With a sudden swift movement , he seized the shotgun with his left hand and sent it whirling off into the night after the pistol . |
| 49 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 50 | The trucks thumped heavily past , one by one , with slow inevitable movement , as she stood insignificantly trapped between the jolting black waggons and the hedge ; then they curved away towards the coppice where the withered oak leaves dropped noiselessly , while the birds , pulling at the scarlet hips beside the track , made off into the dusk that had already crept into the spinney ( 4 ) . |
| 51 | They battered us into the bushes , and made off into the forest with the cart and the team and the load , and left us to limp away on foot wherever we would . |
| 52 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 53 | Like a female Eldritch blessed with the dark side of Patti Smith 's voice and persona , Louise drifts off into the sort of ethereal world that brings to mind fear and insanity rather than the more straightforward bliss of , say , the Cocteaus . |
| 54 | Like a female Eldritch blessed with the dark side of Patti Smith 's voice and persona , Louise drifts off into the sort of ethereal world that brings to mind fear and insanity rather than the more straightforward bliss of , say , the Cocteaus . |
| 55 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 56 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 57 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 58 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 59 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 60 | So at one extreme you 've got the explorer who simply goes off into the unknown . |