Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 5 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Just swerved off into the erm |
| 11 | Chewing on her lip in thought , she finally set off towards the ten-gallon drums , reasoning that she might as well try to find out as much as possible while she was here , and run like hell when the time came . |
| 12 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 13 | He usually sneaked off to the lavatory and relieved himself by peeing and thinking of funerals . |
| 14 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 15 | I remembered the name of the manufacturer who 'd said ‘ yes ’ on the telephone , and two days later drove off in the Metro and picked out my coffin . |
| 16 | A firebomb also went off in the Plaza shopping centre in Oxford Street , London , on Wednesday morning . |
| 17 | He stupidly took off on the outside of a wave when someone else had already established priority on the inside . |
| 18 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 19 | Nutmeg now strode off down the street towards Scruffy 's house . |
| 20 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 21 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 23 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | I do n't know what view of these events my uncles took as we woke them early and followed them around as faithfully as any spaniel — maybe that was why they often nipped off to the pub in the evenings . |
| 25 | The two submarines which had lain alongside Omega at the start of her watch now stood off in the loch , still as two sentries , awaiting Taureg 's arrival , and she wondered how any man could volunteer to serve in such a craft ; how he could live in quarters so cramped , with no privacy at all . |
| 26 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 27 | The Muslim 's bird slowly righted itself , got unsteadily to its feet , then limped off through the legs of the crowd . |
| 28 | I said I believed them to be following the correct route and then crept off into the mist surreptitiously to whip out my compass . |
| 29 | He paused , looked at her then stalked off down the aisle . |
| 30 | The party then moved off down the Spanish Steps to the Hotel della Villa where the main dinner and presentations took place . |