Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | After all this is the woman whose husband has just run off with Felicity Kendal . |
2 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
3 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which markets Sequoia 's 68040-based fault-tolerant Unix machines as the HP 9000 Series 1200 line , has already backed off from investing new money to protect its investment in the company , where it holds an 8% stake . |
4 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
5 | ‘ This has really taken off for us in a big way , ’ George told Sunday Life after a sports luncheon at Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Friday . |
6 | THE career of David Loder , who started off last season with just two winners , has really taken off in 1993 and the Newmarket trainer looks set to reach his half-century this month . |
7 | The sales build-up reached Denmark and the UK in March and has now taken off in Spain , Portugal and Iceland . |
8 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
9 | The second has caused much confusion , some of it deliberate , which has plainly rubbed off on Mr Dalyell . |
10 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
11 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
12 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
13 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
14 | The next minute , he was the teasing , confident extrovert who 'd calmly stripped off in front of her in his bedroom that night . |
15 | A portion of the top floor we 'd completely sealed off with walls of polythene sheeting , and a powerful dehumidifier had been installed . |
16 | How many of you would have actually switched off by now ? |
17 | Fernando was n't the proud man she 'd thought he was and Steve was a creep to have just gone off without letting her know why , with whom and for how long . |
18 | But that 's where they 've all skipped off to . |
19 | Stephen had already set off down the path . |
20 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
21 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
22 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
23 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
24 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
25 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
26 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
27 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
28 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
29 | Producers had originally started off as sound-men and moved into recording a studio product made specifically for dancing . |
30 | Then he had simply skied off like a maniac — anger , she registered . |