Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Grinstead got off to a great start with an 11th minute goal , but in spite of their pressure — they won ten penalty corners to Holywood 's none — they seldom troubled goalkeeper Kyle Thompson . |
| 2 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
| 3 | The robbers described as Afro- Caribbean made off with an unspecified amount in cash and jewels . |
| 4 | In the 3rd division Hereford got off to a flyer against Chesterfield at Edgar Street . |
| 5 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
| 6 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 7 | Northamptonshire got off to a bad start against Derbyshire in the semi-finals of the Benson and Hedges cup . |
| 8 | On CEEFAX and TELETEXT it implied that Cuntona got off with the rap . |
| 9 | Bobby signs off in style |
| 10 | Tuesday kicks off with a champagne breakfast hosted by Dorling Kindersley . |
| 11 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 12 | CHRIS Waddle limped off after 38 minutes with troubled knee ligaments after his £1million move to Sheffield Wednesday from Marseilles . |
| 13 | TV Walker kicks off in soccer war |
| 14 | Oxfordshire 's Artweek kicks off on May 16 , with venues in and around Oxford , such as individual homes , studios , university buildings , shops and galleries throwing open their doors to exhibiting artists . |
| 15 | Oxfordshire 's Artweek kicks off on May 16 , with venues in and around Oxford , such as individual homes , studios , university buildings , shops and galleries throwing open their doors to exhibiting artists . |
| 16 | Montgomerie got off on the wrong foot by commencing with a trio of bogeys , making mistakes throughout the bag before settling down to birdie the fifth and sixth and reach the turn in 38 . |
| 17 | Mahoney wandered off to another part of the room , leaving Donna to study the canvas more closely . |
| 18 | Yet at one extreme a genuinely creative entrepreneur like Rupert Murdoch veered off into over-expansion and over- borrowing which have become as life-threatening as the antics of Alan Bond . |
| 19 | However , this service has not been without delays and mishaps and early in the season Regional Railways had no stock for it , an InterCity rake with buffet + DVT was substituted but the DVT came off at Salop ! |
| 20 | Wetherall came off for Batty . |
| 21 | Andy leads off up large , friable flakes , hair plastered to his head but now mercifully sheltered . |
| 22 | The two mums smiled at each other as Stuart and Linda raced off down the aisle . |
| 23 | On the last day of the Centenary Test of 1980 , Arlott signed off as a commentator in a much more formal setting . |
| 24 | Josh shuffled off down the lip of the basin still sieving the water . |
| 25 | It was only half way back to Darlington that we realised we never had learned why Bobby Orton walked off against Burnhope . |
| 26 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 27 | At least he and Ari get off on each other . |
| 28 | Bernice rushed off into the smoke . |
| 29 | Surere broke off in fury . |
| 30 | Sir Richard flew off with wife Sheila Sim yesterday for Hawaii , to work in front of the camera for the first time in 15 years for Steven Spielberg 's latest film Jurassic Park . |