Example sentences of "out [conj] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | In simple language , it is normally sufficient for the occupier to make reasonable endeavours to keep out or chase off the potential or actual intruder who is likely to be or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 2 | Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared . |
| 3 | That letter was in draft form , ready to be checked by lawyers , then typed out and sent off on the morning of 27 February 1991 . |
| 4 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 5 | This car was stripped out and written off after being stolen from a car park . |
| 6 | Amazed at her own daring , she watched herself reach out and flip off the ignition switch . |
| 7 | ‘ Madonna jumped out and strode off . |
| 8 | Then Hank came out and drove off , and he cursed him quietly . |
| 9 | ‘ After the rape he pushed her out and drove off , ’ said a Scotland Yard spokesman . |
| 10 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 11 | A mile down the road , he asked me to stop , jumped out and ran off into the darkness , leaving his knife behind . |
| 12 | ‘ I still freak out and go off and do things ’ , he added enigmatically . |
| 13 | He reached a hand out and switched off both heaters . |
| 14 | But he was still not suffering from his hypmaniacal attack — he now believed the Mafia were after him — and when the ambulance stopped at Tottenham Court Road , a quarter of a mile away , he leapt out and set off again naked down the street . |
| 15 | And do n't think you 're going to turn them out and slope off . |
| 16 | These initially hair-like fibres seek out and feed off the cellulose in the wood which is digested by the fungus to leave a dry , desiccated and fragile shell of wood-fibre or lignin which , in the absence of the cementitious cellulose , can not continue to perform any structural role required of the timber . |