Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain finally became cut off from the Continent at the Straits of Dover around 6500 BC , although it may have been somewhat later between East Anglia and northern Europe via the Dogger Bank . |
| 2 | We go up the hill on the toboggans and you 're meant to use your brakes and one of us did , and we just went flying off into the raging snow . |
| 3 | At this point an Irishman among the raiders unaccountably chose to dash off through the still sleeping streets to raise the alarm . |
| 4 | One of the first two out had peeled off to the left towards the Orchard . |
| 5 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 6 | It had seemed to slow down briefly after the impact , as if the driver was considering whether to stop or not , and then had accelerated off into the night . |