Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just stay there , squatting down and the woman gives me a funny look and tugs the little girl 's hand and they walk round me and go off down the road . |
| 2 | He clipped me and spun off into the wall and broke his neck . ’ |
| 3 | Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint . |
| 4 | He squeezed them and kissed them and went off into the house . |
| 5 | ‘ I can handle that , ’ he whispered fervently as he pushed past them and rushed off up the corridor . |
| 6 | Before they could move , someone pushed past them and shambled off down the corridor . |
| 7 | They took the goose between them and set off along the line that shone silver in the moonlight . |
| 8 | Afterwards I have to go to the Headmaster and explain to him that running off with the papermate was all a joke and could I help it if people had no sense of humour … ? |
| 9 | ‘ I said , ‘ Get lost ’ , and pushed past him and staggered off down the corridor . |
| 10 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 11 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 12 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 13 | and left it and walked off in the kitchen . |
| 14 | Eventually I left them to it and went off into the night , the bells keeping me company through the streets . |
| 15 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |