Example sentences of "up [coord] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | '68 — jeans either simply rolled up or cut off at required above-boot height — though some were worn instep length by some . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Drivers filling up and speeding off without paying was the top crime , with 55 per cent of stations hit . |
| 4 | The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry 's melting pot . |
| 5 | But the assistant on the show got so pissed that she put her head on his lap , after which he got up and walked off in the middle of the programme . ’ |
| 6 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 7 | Angrily , Bernice picked herself up and went off down the winding path . |
| 8 | ‘ I was upset at being kept awake by people snoring , ’ said Fintan , but after a moment he got up and went off to the buttery himself , ‘ because we need to know if the parsley butter is ready , ’ he said rather defiantly . |
| 9 | When they grew up and went off into the wild I suffered dreadful pangs . |
| 10 | The wood finally landed on a beach in Hornsea where a man picked it up and drove off with it . |
| 11 | After a few minutes the Carabinieri vehicle revved up and screeched off down the road . |
| 12 | He jumped up and dashed off at once . |
| 13 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 14 | WOUNDED but still doggedly alive , Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton is lurching remorselessly towards the Democratic presidential nomination — to the delight of White House strategists who are mostly convinced he will be a wonderfully bloodied candidate for President Bush to beat up and kill off in the autumn . |
| 15 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 16 | Before words can be exchanged , however , they sup up and slip off to some other pub . |
| 17 | He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales . |
| 18 | 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 . |