Example sentences of "[vb past] off [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drew off and went back towards his party ? ’ |
| 2 | The victims were sitting on a bench when one car hit the other , bounced off and ploughed into them at 80mph , it was alleged . |
| 3 | He moved off and looked to Maurice to follow . |
| 4 | Another car drove off but ran into a ditch at the roadworks and another young man was arrested . |
| 5 | The psychiatrist who buggered off while listening , |
| 6 | The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor . |
| 7 | But before it was consumed entirely , it lifted off and shot up towards the painstyled plaster of the ceiling . |
| 8 | And when the corrections were pasted on , they frequently dropped off or slipped into the wrong place during the journey to the cameras . |
| 9 | Bits dropped off and clattered into the street . |
| 10 | Police cordoned off and evacuated the area , which is just yards from the Brent Cross Shopping Centre . |
| 11 | The car accelerated off and disappeared into the late afternoon traffic . |
| 12 | His swamp-hunter boots could have been an elephant 's feet lopped off and hollowed out . |
| 13 | Some of the boys got off and placed bombs on the trucks . |
| 14 | On the boat was an old couple and approaching the bridge he got off and left his wife in charge of the boat , He also attempted to open the bridge the wrong way and once again the boat hit the bridge and knocked it off its hinges . |
| 15 | We got off and took cover for a while , then came up and got another bus to Fulham . |
| 16 | When she reached her stop Maggie got off and paused to stare out over Glasgow Green , spotting the People s Palace in the distance . |
| 17 | So I got off and walked around for an hour or so , unseeing , my mind a total blank . |
| 18 | Both of them got off and walked . |
| 19 | So they just casually got off and walked away . |
| 20 | When James asked his brother Nicholas for-a turn on his new bike , Nicholas got off and helped James on to the bike — but his mother made no comment , and James rode off without a word of thanks . |
| 21 | Then he got off and set off back towards Slough . |
| 22 | The bikers were so angry that they rode off and gave the cash to another children 's hospice at Quidenham , Norfolk . |
| 23 | After that she stalked off and refused to come near me . |
| 24 | There are a lot of scores paid off when shopping . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if he had been caught , Bartholomew would have been sliced from neck to crotch , his genitals ripped off and stuffed into his mouth , and his decapitated head placed on a spike above the city gates . |
| 26 | Miss Danziger turned off and pedalled along the line of the cliff top . |
| 27 | At the next junction it turned off and rejoined the Edgware Road running back south . |
| 28 | Directed by Alston , the screaming ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ turned off and shot down through the narrow side streets of the Arab quarter . |
| 29 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 30 | She trotted off and returned two minutes later with a pure white cashmere cardigan . |