Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | So I went off to the er at the show . |
2 | And so I set off across the field . |
3 | So I started off with the idea that there 's this little baby in the cradle , he 's completely in the dark and the dark is something really frightening . |
4 | Perhaps she drifted off in the bath . |
5 | So you start off on the basis that you will be entitled to a new lease under the 1954 Act provided you take the necessary steps within the time scale set out in the Act . |
6 | All your horses are out , put your men up they walk round the ring and at seven o'clock you move off to the heath to train your horses . |
7 | So we set off down the steep easterly flank of the mountain , alongside a spectacular waterfall that incredibly was still partially frozen in June . |
8 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
9 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
10 | You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian . |
11 | But soon he took off from the earthly tediousness of the concrete for a glide in purer air . |
12 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
13 | Thankfully we peeled off opposite the White Horse Farm Hotel , just before our muscles gave up on us . |
14 | Eventually we moved off through the main gate of the camp to the Vorlager , or front camp , where the showers were situated . |
15 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
16 | Then I slide off in the direction of New Cross Station . |
17 | I do n't — I just say thank you and goodbye , then I go off up the road . |
18 | I chatted with her while I weighed the potatoes , then I moved off to the wines and spirits section . |
19 | Question mark , What that means is , four o'clock you go home , you pick the kids up from school , you take them all to MacDonalds , you all have Big Macs , yum , yum , then you go off to the pictures , and they all want to see Arnold Schwarzenegger blowing somebody 's head off , and you want to watch Bambi or whatever it is . |
20 | Then she set off across the shimmering grass , towards the dank , smelly , but mercifully cool ‘ Ladies ’ . |
21 | Then she knuckled off to the back of the cage and Fifi followed , her eyes fixed on the banana although she was n't trying to snatch . |
22 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
23 | Then we took off down the back alleys in case someone saw us and told our parents . |
24 | Then we turned off into the heart of the plain at Ponte Taro , a small hamlet , for the final stage of our journey . |
25 | They follow the drive , heat from the cracked tarmac rising in their faces , then they turn off along the path , dry grass scratching her legs . |
26 | Then they set off over the fields for the nearest village , two miles away . |
27 | Then they set off after the horses . |
28 | From there they set off to the landing ground which was Fraser 's target . |
29 | He indicated dancing by making a stirring motion with his index finger and nearly knocking the vodka flask over , and then he lurched off towards the music . |
30 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |