Example sentences of "and they [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 2 | Jack agreed and they set off down the track side , treading carefully in case they tripped over signal wire . |
| 3 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 4 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 5 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 6 | She ran , jumped on her girlfriend 's motorbike and they roared off to the house in the middle of the ricefields where they were staying , the bike slewing around in panic . |
| 7 | Children from the local primary school cycled the path to attend the ceremony , but when Walter and Ted started reminiscing about bike rides to Newcastle in the 1920's , their patience ran out and they scampered off to the village hall for their free tea ! |
| 8 | And they backed off in the stumbling , hurried , slightly reckless way that traffic pulls over for ambulances or royalty . |
| 9 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 10 | Mr McDoodle pulled on the reins and they headed off down the drive , past the old hanging tree and out onto the bumpy road . |