Example sentences of "and then [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 2 | Quite coherent and certain he saw his dad make a phone call from the instrument in the hall and then drive off in the car . |
| 3 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 4 | He suddenly dropped a quick kiss on her startled lips and then bounded off up the stairs , and Jenna was left with his briefcase in her hand , her expression stunned . |
| 5 | He outlined his idea for a movie plot , which was basically the story of two Californian friends who decide to make a once-and-for-all fortune by selling a consignment of cocaine , and then setting off across the country for a marijuana-cum-motorbikes adventure . |
| 6 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 7 | Mahmud bathed from the stern of the boat and then went off through the trees to buy some food from a nearby village . |
| 8 | Scunthorpe 's Stevenson was cautioned and then sent off in the space of 60 seconds , and while Burnley tried to take advantage the visiting 10 seemed as vulnerable as green bottles . |
| 9 | It whined , backed away with its eyes fixed on Grimma , and then darted off into the darkness . |
| 10 | We held hands all the way through Live Aid , having not spoken to each other for a week , and then rushed off to the Post Office as soon as we could with our three pounds . |
| 11 | Gay had scraped together quite a creditable lunch , which Breeze swallowed in haste and then rushed off to the Vicarage . |
| 12 | She ordered a glass of milk , gulped it down and then rushed off to the ladies . |
| 13 | I had a perm on Friday and then rushed off to the dentist for an emergency white cement type filling to fill my Friday 13th loss ( ! ) — maddening to have to go back again as it is the other side of town , but I walked the two miles or so home , along with Bella . |
| 14 | We ate a hearty breakfast and then set off for the moor . |
| 15 | There is a coincidence with Osbern 's story , and it may be that Swegen was present in England when tribute was paid in 1012 , and then set off for the Irish Sea ( thus repeating the possible pattern of 994 – 5 ) only to be shipwrecked , perhaps off the Welsh coast . |
| 16 | Champion let Aldaniti take the last fence in his own time and then set off up the run-in which the jockey later described as ‘ the loneliest place in the world ’ . |
| 17 | On a voyage to Kuwait , perhaps to Ahmadi or Khafji , the drill was to pass the Strait of Hormuz in darkness , travelling straight across to Dubai , anchor for the following day and then set off in the evening to take up position off Das Island . |
| 18 | Before departing , we ate and then headed off to the Crucible Theatre for the evening . |
| 19 | Tests show that , after a slow beginning , availability of the nutrients rises to a peak in about 80 days and then tails off with the potash being held late , when it is needed . |
| 20 | He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London . |
| 21 | Before starting out , Yanto suggested taking the A38 towards Bristol and then turning off to the right towards the river when they felt like it . |
| 22 | so they 're seriously looking to the trunk road network coming down bypass and then going off round the Caernarvon bypass ? |
| 23 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 24 | This line of islands swings round to the north , and finally back to the west through South Georgia , describing a great loop , and then heads off for the extreme south of South America . |
| 25 | It bumped into his foot , beeped at him , and then bustled off in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | That did n't stop my old man pocketing the money , touching his cap and then heading off towards the Black Bull . |
| 27 | Er , well we only really done exercises and then started off with the play . |
| 28 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |
| 29 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |