Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 2 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 3 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 4 | The ferry was not big , but she dwarfed the harbour — she had to stand off from the jetty and land us by boat — and indeed the village . |
| 5 | For those , you have to traipse off to the main offices . |
| 6 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |
| 7 | The engine leapt , shouted , and was tamed , and in less than a minute we had taken off from the little beach and were circling the island . |
| 8 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 9 | Now , of course , we we know that that you know , that that that that er , that even then , part of that settlement has has gone because they 've cut off on the of the Western by-pass , I mean , you 've still got er , er |
| 10 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 11 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 12 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 13 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 14 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 15 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid it 's gone off to the High Court , sir . ’ |
| 17 | Well it 's fastened off at the back is n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ He 's got off by the blonde one in the wig , anyway ! ’ |
| 19 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |