Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the bridge between the frogs and set off for the far end of the green , where the lane led up into the council estate . |
| 2 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 3 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 4 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 5 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 6 | Then he scrambled to his feet and hared off between the trees . |
| 7 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 8 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 9 | Realising that there was more snow on the way , she clenched her teeth and set off for the moors . |
| 10 | Only he had watched , fascinated , as the pool of blood collecting around the spilt innards suddenly burst its confines and set off down the road , finding its way slowly and with difficulty , its bright fresh surface soon matted with dust and drowning insects . |
| 11 | When they land the young ones break lanes and stream off down the corridor , hustling for position . |
| 12 | Our visitors rose , said their farewells and walked off across the court again . |
| 13 | Fortified for a final fight , we stuffed everything into our sacks and set off on the laborious slog back up Coire Raibeirt for a buffeted race against darkness over the plateau and down to the vast , eerily deserted car park . |
| 14 | Blanche glanced up and down the empty pavement , slid on her leather gloves and loped off into the night . |
| 15 | We put on our képis , straightened our ties , pulled our fingers into regulation gloves and set off for the guardhouse . |
| 16 | He bundled her down the stairs and set off through the rain at a cracking pace . |
| 17 | In terror , she lifted her skirts and ran off into the village , proclaiming loudly that ‘ the diel ’ was in Alloway kirk . |
| 18 | We watched the men bundle up their parachutes and move off through the dense undergrowth , chopping at it with jungle machetes . |
| 19 | The time-travellers manage to escape from the Aridians and take off in the TARDIS , but the Dalek time-ship is in hot pursuit . |
| 20 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 21 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 22 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 23 | Before either of his listeners could reply to these curt instructions , fitzAlan shoved his reins into the other man 's hands and strode off towards the forebuilding without another word . |
| 24 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 25 | When the daylight drained from the winter sky , like steel growing cold , some of the humans got into their vehicles and drove off down the lane . |
| 26 | They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach . |
| 27 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 28 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 29 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |