Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] off [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I only dropped off for a second . ’ |
| 2 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 3 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 4 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 5 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 6 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 7 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 8 | A child clutching its small amount of pocket-money was so rooked , so palmed off with rubbish . |
| 9 | ‘ But as soon as we got to the line I realised he was going to keel over with me and I just hopped off in time . |
| 10 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 11 | As they set off to cross a bridge already cordoned off as a prohibited area , the police hurriedly re-formed in front of them . |
| 12 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 13 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 14 | Someone nicked Brix 's earrings and this lad just walked up and grabbed Mark E Smith 's beer and just walked off with it and Mark was juts like making out like he thought it was really ‘ cool ’ being robbed by these street kids , these really horrible street kids who were just ripping the piss out of them … ‘ |
| 15 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 16 | Harriet 's voice had grown bleaker as she spoke and finally broke off on a clipped note of finality . |
| 17 | It was n't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep . |
| 18 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |
| 19 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 20 | ‘ During that interim period Doctor Who just took off with the Daleks in a way that none of us could have imagined , and after that there was no more discussion about it coming off the air . |
| 21 | It just took off like a rocket from there . |
| 22 | I was at a stage where I was used to getting something like cannabis or whatever and , with none of that being around , I thought a bit of this wo n't do me any harm and it just took off from there . |
| 23 | I was at a stage where I was used to getting something like cannabis or whatever and with none a that being round I thought a bita this wo n't do me any harm and it just took off from there … . |
| 24 | it just rubbed off on my hand |
| 25 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , Hastings Pier was packed on Friday for Splash ( rechristened by one DJ present as ‘ the all-England gurning contest ’ ) , Saturday 's country house alldayer near Bournemouth was generally acclaimed , while on Sunday night London 's Strut finally took off with a full turn-out for guest DJ Danny Rampling . |
| 27 | We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves . |
| 28 | He just went off after Evensong . |
| 29 | ‘ Some people think the Christmas holiday is the 10 days we just had off from school , but I think it 's more than that . |
| 30 | Just swerved off into the erm |