Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah said : ‘ Although we got off to a shaky start everyone is getting it together now . |
| 2 | The position is , looking at appendix one , and if you take the first triangle , which has got nineteen ninety three , ninety four below it , that 's showing that we started off with no clients , and then by the end of the year we expect to have a number of people in our care , receiving services , to which we have a degree of commitment . |
| 3 | Two cyclists seemed fair game to these pissed idiots so we took off for the hills , only a small range but , we were to discover , quite beautiful . |
| 4 | The driver 's home was en route so we stopped off for mint tea there . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's on the same day as Jedburgh 's , so we start off by riding there between 8.30 am and 1.00 pm . |
| 6 | With Nathan on board my dogs move more slowly , and we trail off from the others as we climb up above the tree line . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some British armoured cars came and began shooting from a distance , and in the chaos I shouted out to four or five brother officers and we drove off in a truck . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , that 's all that matters , then , kid , ’ I said , and we went off to Fortnum and Mason for a Peach Melba . |
| 10 | We then all got into taxis and we went off to the Coconut Grove at the top half of Regent Street where we spent until the small hours of the morning . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't fancy marching in this heat , ’ remarked the driver as he started up the engine and we sped off in the direction of the Orne bridges . |
| 12 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 13 | Mohammed came with us to Taroudant where Aziz organised the Tichka end ( his patch ) and we set off for the mountains . |
| 14 | However , prizegiving was only about half an hour later than planned and we set off for home at a reasonable hour . |
| 15 | However conditions seemed promising in the morning and we set off with lunch packs in our bags and hope in our hearts ! on the two-hour boat run there are always lots of birds to look at , and soon after we left ‘ the narrows ’ of the harbour entrance we were aware of black-browed albatrosses . |
| 16 | Formalities were hurried over , and we took off into a lowering western sky . |
| 17 | Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road . |
| 18 | Well , we come off duty , we go on duty tonight at half past ten , and we come off at half past ten on Friday night , and we actually leave Didcot fire station at half five Saturday morning to get there for first light so we can make most use of the light , daylight hours . |
| 19 | Everything was set up and we moved off in convoy to Barry . |
| 20 | Five five twelfths cos we started off with six twelfths take one twelfth away start off with six pigs and take one pig away got five pigs . |
| 21 | Now , if we round off to three decimal places , we find that F can be written as the unit rank matrix , proportional to unc unc If we now revert to A and postmultiply by unc unc Thus , 1 = 25 . |
| 22 | but if we start off at Kings Mill and they 'll decide what h The best way of treating this . |
| 23 | So , if we start off with one of the string patches , I 'll see if I can guide you through the editing process . |
| 24 | If we start off by accepting these categories , then we start off by saying that Jesus did not rise from the dead , in the ordinary sense of those words . |
| 25 | If we start off by considering the accounting application as an object developed in C sitting there in the middle of the screen , we need the ability to talk to the users through a graphical user interface . |
| 26 | The road was just as wide as the Tri-Pacer , and fearing a truck would not see us if we pulled off to the side , we left the aircraft sitting in the middle of the road . |
| 27 | Supposing we start off with , erm , we had to explain the origins of cooperation . |
| 28 | Supposing we start off with a species of selfish individuals . |
| 29 | Well we start we start we do put the number in but we start off with . |
| 30 | But we stopped off for half an hour as well . |