Example sentences of "[verb] off into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 2 | She struggled to her feet , her only thought to avoid discovery , and staggered off into the darkness . |
| 3 | ‘ You bolted off into the forest , ’ said Tommy , his eyes never leaving Trentham . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |
| 6 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 7 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 8 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We all head off into the bloody storm , and then this whole horror comic gets sorted out when we 're back in the real world . |
| 11 | And before you know it you 're packing your case and ironing your spotty frocks , ready for jetting off into the sun . |
| 12 | After a most welcome visit to the Orchard Room we headed off into the dusk for the night stage to Birmingham . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 15 | The car moved off into the darkness and the rain . |
| 16 | Soon they were calling and shouting to each other as they moved off into the forest . |
| 17 | For a second she thought they must have turned the other way , and then she saw them again , riding through the trees , the sunlight striking them before they moved off into the shadows . |
| 18 | Then , throwing her a wink , he turned and moved off into the crowd . |
| 19 | A quiet , grass-grown ride branched off into the dimness of the wood , and in the surface were imprinted deep wheelmarks . |
| 20 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 21 | He wandered off into the shadow , his head tilted backwards . |
| 22 | A distraction may cause it to wander off into the road , with fatal consequences . |
| 23 | The not inconsiderable amount of time clients spend in hospital and campus services without supervision in part reflects the option for clients to wander off into the dormitories unnoticed . |
| 24 | She got out , and , after he had waited to see her enter the house , the car roared off into the night . |
| 25 | The first ship date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target . |
| 26 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ If only she 'd clear off into the dower house , ’ she told herself , ‘ I could really improve things here . ’ |
| 28 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 29 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 30 | The driver , with the predictability of all motorists over the last few weeks , commented on the petrol crisis , overcharged grossly , and drove off into the night . |