Example sentences of "they have [adv] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
2 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
3 | But that 's where they 've all skipped off to . |
4 | They had then rolled off towards Pushkin with Myeloski eating the vobla out of an old copy of Izvestia which was unrolled on his lap . |
5 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |