Example sentences of "taken off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unnerved by Alejandro 's great roar of laughter , Maldita had taken off into the pampas , somehow miraculously missing rabbit holes and fallen logs as she hurtled along . |
| 2 | Three advance hand in hand over irregular ground , the last half-hidden by the rim , and around the other sides ( fig. 115 ) others , some with transparent drapery , have taken off into the air and float free — an imaginative adaptation of the black background to the new idea of spatial setting . |
| 3 | The duty officer has to be on hand , not only to greet the pilots and passengers , but to make sure the plane gets refuelled and baggage is taken off into the airport . |
| 4 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 5 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 6 | Having gathered them up , I found the rest of the brood had taken off down the mountain . |
| 7 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 8 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 9 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 10 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 11 | The mother of the groom may also ask to see the bride and she will be taken off to a remote room in the bride 's house , away from the eyes of other members of her hareem , for the bride is in strict purdah for the coming wedding . |
| 12 | Generally , what happens is , subject gets kidnapped , taken off to a distant planet , clued up upon the celestial wisdom of the space folk , then dumped back here to fend for himself . |
| 13 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 14 | Or some pathetic tailor like Taplow being trapped in his little cage and taken off to the slaughter house . |
| 15 | Power ( 10 credits ) : Like the Attack power-up , the more Power you have , the higher the chances of an opposing player being taken off on a stretcher . |
| 16 | He and Pam had taken off on the very day the fair ended — a fact that did not go unnoticed by the locals . |
| 17 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 18 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 19 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 20 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 21 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 22 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 23 | At 0748hrs Zeros and Val dive-bombers which had taken off from the Soryu attacked . |
| 24 | Alternatively the quantities can be taken off from the drawings or extracted from the builder 's estimate . |
| 25 | The EF1-11 radar jamming plane had taken off from the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 26 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | The oilmen were taken off by a fleet of helicopters after the vessel lost one of its anchors and was later forced to shed its seven remaining ones . |
| 28 | All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate . |
| 29 | Boys and old men drove donkeys , which carried baskets of sand from where it had blown into the town at one end , to be taken off by the wind at the other . |
| 30 | ‘ Obviously , I was pleased to score against my old club , but the shine was completely taken off by the result , ’ he said . |