Example sentences of "off somewhere " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we walked down towards the community centre they all stopped off somewhere to steal some cymbals . |
| 2 | Steve had gone off somewhere so , to help me along , I nicked one of his black bombers , the capsules of speed he always had around . |
| 3 | They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . |
| 4 | He had never been able to lose himself in a crowd , or dash off somewhere suddenly on a whim . |
| 5 | He ought to have been off somewhere else on a shoot by now . |
| 6 | Isabel had locked the door to Faith 's old room , and taken the keys off somewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ They said it looks OK but they 've towed it off somewhere to search for clues . |
| 8 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 9 | If it were possible for Jessie to go and live in Durham , it was also possible that at times she could meet Robbie Felton , and then perhaps they could get married and go off somewhere . |
| 10 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 11 | By this time we were all soaked to the skin , so we gave up , knowing that she would go off somewhere and have a good sleep . |
| 12 | JP : ‘ I knew I 'd nicked it off somewhere , I just could n't remember where . |
| 13 | After much remonstrating during which I was told very kindly and politely that there was no problem , till I felt like tearing my hair out , I was sent to sit in a corner ( just a woman you see ) and Mr Fleming was ushered off to meet an official , rush off somewhere and come back with a piece of paper which was duly stamped , passport returned , and off we went to meet our contact , who explained in a jocular fashion that I was the problem . |
| 14 | There must be a bag off somewhere . |
| 15 | On the other hand he did , once on the jetty , bend his knees carefully so that he could deposit my suitcase next to another item of my luggage before loping off somewhere else with the sack still on his head . |
| 16 | When a quarter of an hour had passed the Brigadier poked his head round the door , wondering if the Captain had gone off somewhere , it was so quiet . |
| 17 | When he was in Rome , when Jo was off somewhere , he enjoyed being one of the helpers . |
| 18 | On the other hand , scribbling in a note-book , or rushing off somewhere to scribble in a note-book , could easily ‘ kill ’ a piece of action . |
| 19 | " If it was n't for you two , " my mother told us , " I could be off somewhere else . " |
| 20 | A crumbly chunk of derelict stone topples off somewhere or other into the roadway , stopping the bus and not before time either , cos it allows a man to rattle down the stairs and nearly reach the gutter before a partly digested steak pie and beery gravy is offered to the land from whence it originated . |
| 21 | Her energies came back to her in a rush , with the thought that now , having all that money , Jasper would be off somewhere , and if she wanted to catch him , she must hurry . |
| 22 | So Buck had gone off somewhere . |
| 23 | ‘ Well you could always just call it quits and head off somewhere else . |
| 24 | Come back with me to my ship and I 'll drop you off somewhere . |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as Wine has made enough , he 'll be off somewhere else . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He 'll be sleeping it off somewhere . ‘ |
| 27 | And whether they tend to get older and move on , or like you say I totally agree , Have they took off somewhere else ? |
| 28 | ‘ If we were n't tied to this bit of the country , I 'd almost think about chucking it all in and heading off somewhere different — Canada , or Australia , or South Africa . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I know , ’ conceded Lydia , ‘ but then I dash off somewhere else to see something different . ’ |
| 30 | He usually also went off somewhere under the auspices of some ecologically minded group . |