Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 .
  Next page