Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily for us he was too overcome to offer us refreshment , so we said our farewells and got back into the jeep and drove off along the road leading to the village of Breville . |
| 2 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 3 | The car picked up speed and shot off into the distance . |
| 4 | But woe betide any minister who does not possess a country seat and sets off across the Channel to ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 5 | When a bream sucks a bait to its lips the unwanted material is taken into the mouth and filtered off through the gills . |
| 6 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 7 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 8 | Then she turned the car and drove off down the lane . |
| 9 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 10 | In the end , Anna borrowed Lady Vestey 's BMW car and drove off into the night , angry and humiliated at her very public snub . |
| 11 | He gave my passport to the Corporal who put it into his pocket , then we got into the car and drove off in the direction of Lille . |
| 12 | By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs . |
| 13 | After she had washed and dressed in warm cord trousers , leather boots and a thick sweater , she this time took the precaution of collecting her anorak before going out to her car and driving off in the direction of Great Yarmouth . |
| 14 | I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe . |
| 15 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 16 | She lifted it over the fence and set off across the little meadow , gathering speed and thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 17 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 18 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 19 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 20 | These are again flakes that can be lifted out of dry gravel and float off on the surface of the water . |
| 21 | With an oath he struggled up , plucked the arrow from the crutch and stumbled off among the trees . |
| 22 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 23 | Dorothea did not even mind when she lost her grip and wandered off down the avenues of the past , for sometimes she could accompany her , at any rate part of the way , and |
| 24 | She turned her back on Simon and walked off into the sand dunes . |
| 25 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 26 | Then he scrambled to his feet and hared off between the trees . |
| 27 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 28 | Not to mention every day of the week when you climb on that evil machine and ride off into the sunset ! ’ |
| 29 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 30 | She combed her hair , applied her make-up and set off for the Post Office . |