Example sentences of "[v-ing] off with [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 men were seen walking away and then driving off with a woman and possibly another man . |
| 2 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 3 | I saw it pissing off with an apprentice on the way down to the start at Chester . |
| 4 | After Peter Russell had slotted over a neat dropped goal on the Dungannon 22 , McGarry , before going off with a nose injury swung the game again in Dungannon 's favour with his final penalty of the match . |
| 5 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 6 | I remember him going , going off with the milk |
| 7 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 8 | When the solicited animal joins in the harassment , it may end with the enlister going off with the female and leaving the other two to fight it out . |
| 9 | Wales skipper Ieuan Evans also got three before limping off with a groin injury . |
| 10 | So in the presence of a sustained stimulus , here , which is lasting around two milliseconds , the channels are switching off with a time constant of what around half a millisecond . |
| 11 | He caught a glimpse of Sheldukher who , with his usual instinct for self preservation , was scurrying off with the Cell case tucked under his arm . |
| 12 | Away supporters are seldom , if ever , present and the crowd has less solidarity : the match-day involvement is more privatised , starting off with a family ‘ tailgate party ’ ( an informal car-park meal ) before each spectator strolls to his or her seat . |
| 13 | If we 're doing add we 're just starting off with the counting numbers . |
| 14 | But the stepfather of the Idaho beauty objects to his daughter 's running off with a commentator . |
| 15 | ‘ My lady , you are n't thinking of running off with a pedlar ? ’ |
| 16 | Before running off with the dough the men beat my arms with pickaxe handles . |
| 17 | HE 'S been running off with the toilet rolls — and viewers ' affections — for 21 years . |
| 18 | Afterwards I have to go to the Headmaster and explain to him that running off with the papermate was all a joke and could I help it if people had no sense of humour … ? |
| 19 | a pickpocket running off with the victim 's wallet and money . |
| 20 | Now family reasons can be anything from baby 's colic to a wife running off with the milkman , and there is no arguing with them , because it is indelicate to inquire further , and potentially embarrassing to boot . |
| 21 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 22 | A very popular night out is the evening in a mountain hut , with loads of traditional thigh slapping music to join in with , finishing off with a flare lit mountain descent . |
| 23 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 24 | Nick Simmons … taking off with the AA |
| 25 | Police even stopped one souvenir hunter cycling off with the ship 's compass tucked under his arm . |
| 26 | Raiders broke into the parochial church school at Swainby , making off with a computer , monitors , a television set , a radio cassette player , cash and a cheque book . |
| 27 | This she did , knocking her ball down to that stretch of fairway fronting the green before chipping to 2 feet and making off with a par . |
| 28 | The thief then bound his feet , wrists and mouth with tape and left him face down on the office floor before making off with the money in Barry 's car . |
| 29 | Little can be done without permission — the same security system which prevents light-fingered customers from making off with the goods , also trains an unblinking eye on the shop-worker . |
| 30 | Backstage , drying off with a towel , he asked : ‘ Was I any good ? ’ |