Example sentences of "and [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 2 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 3 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 4 | They raise them to shoulder level , and back off from the small crowd . |
| 5 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 6 | This is the beginning of the classic route to follow on a walking tour of Zurich , starting from the main railway station through the sophisticated poise of the Bahnhofstrasse and branching off for the Lindenhof . |
| 7 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 8 | He knows it , and drives off into the night licking his dollar lips . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't need the river — one look at you is enough ! ’ she declared , and stalked off into the trees . |
| 10 | Then he spun on his heel and stalked off round the side of the cart . |
| 11 | He dumped it down behind the boat-house and went back towards the house , then after a bit he came down again with a picture , and dumped that , then he took the bag and made off up the path with it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He just walked in , pushed her aside and made off with the handbag , ’ she claimed . |
| 13 | But he recovered his balance in a stride and made off for the water jump . |
| 14 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 15 | They battered us into the bushes , and made off into the forest with the cart and the team and the load , and left us to limp away on foot wherever we would . |
| 16 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 17 | The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’ |
| 18 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 19 | ‘ Poor old Corbett , ’ said Septimus Coffin , as Penny shoved the books into her briefcase and made off down the drive . |
| 20 | He turned , pale-faced , and made off down the corridor . |
| 21 | Mr Hutchinson managed to raise the alarm but the two men helped themselves to the cash and made off in the car driven by Wishart , of no fixed abode . |
| 22 | At the sound of gunfire the refugee ship turned away and made off round the southern counties and up towards Liverpool , where it was finally recognised as a friendly vessel . |
| 23 | Then he jumped on to his black horse , and rode off over the moor with the hounds running and crying around him . |
| 24 | Within an hour Allan , Donald the smith , and the Logan brothers had set off down the strath to Weem with the petitions in a leather wallet , to add to the already thick bunch in James 's strong-box , and Cameron and James had got horses from a sympathizer in the village and rode off towards the narrow glen of Keltney . |
| 25 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 26 | She turned her back on the squabbling creatures and crept off along the footpath . |
| 27 | Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected . |
| 28 | However , the real action is when you jump into the cockpit and zoom off down the runway to strike a blow against the evil Quadaffi . |
| 29 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 30 | And in fact prices would seem now to be levelling off somewhat throughout the country , slowing down in the North and levelling off at the current levels in the South . |