Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 2 | It was old and battered , with a single arm that had broken off at the end . |
| 3 | And that one that had wandered off from the rest it became aware that it was lost . |
| 4 | I sat in the road during a demonstration and got hauled off to the police station in Newbury . |
| 5 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 6 | He stood up and picked up the candle and went wandering off into the shadows with it . |
| 7 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 8 | When he retired from the RAF he remained a most active civilian doctor on the staff at Halton and continued to rush off with the ‘ go-team ’ in response to any call from the AIB duty co-ordinator for some years afterwards . |