Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tucked in her brown silk blouse , tossed her red hair free and strode off towards the editor 's office , Mitch behind her admiring her slender figure and keeping his thoughts strictly to himself . |
| 2 | As soon as his hold slackened a shade she pulled free and set off down the stairs . |
| 3 | He bounded over the thirteenth and fourteenth and set off for the Chair , that huge open ditch which forms the biggest obstacle on the course . |
| 4 | The carriageway was empty and sealed off from the world by chipped grey railings down the centre and either side . |
| 5 | Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot . |
| 6 | Eventually a few candles were lit , the band started playing , the couples uncoupled and went off to the back room , and the party went on . |
| 7 | Yet when he saw her the next day and attempted to speak to her she told him to leave her alone and ran off into the prop-room . |
| 8 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 9 | And so it proved , for the horse with no chance was not going to accommodate the pundits now : Foinavon jumped the last two and set off up the run-in still twenty lengths to the good . |
| 10 | Constantly at war with my vertigo , I decided not to be pathetic and strode off on the flat , step-like slabs that top the crest of the ridge . |
| 11 | The straight lines and angles are curved and rounded off in the interest of naturalism , but the geometrical basis remains most marked ; and the imposition of this formula is analogous to the reimposition of Geometric discipline in the changed form of black-figure on the experimentalism of orientalising vase-painting . |