Example sentences of "off into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the queue was syphoning off into a road signposted for Algar Seco , a bizarre coastal rock formation on the outskirts of the village , while other vehicles were following the one-way system and looping in and out of the square . |
| 2 | If any of us let go and started breathing again , one of them would fall off into a lake of mud . |
| 3 | sure but again I mean if there was a market for this I am sure that to take that and splinter it off into a unit it costs money to get people that want to come into this business |
| 4 | ‘ First you try to kill yourself by running off into a blizzard , and now you risk life and limb because you ca n't even bring yourself to admit to me that you 've never skied in your life before . ’ |
| 5 | When the end of a glass rod is heated in a flame the glass softens and tends to round off into a blob because surface tension remains active long after permanent mechanical resistance to deformation has disappeared . |
| 6 | Having come very close to the heart of the matter , Bukharin then slid off into a discussion of the role of workers ’ consumption in the circulation of capital ; all of which is correct , but he failed to explicate the mechanism by which such a disproportionality comes about . |
| 7 | He would go off into a musing in the outfield . |
| 8 | He talked about the murder victim sprawled across the pavement , and then wandered off into a conversation about a comedian called Ken Dodd . |
| 9 | Formalities were hurried over , and we took off into a lowering western sky . |
| 10 | AT THE first bend in the narrow lane from Guestwick to Corpusty there are the vestiges of an old carriageway turning off into a field in a south-westerly direction . |
| 11 | The other car was ultimately forced to stop , and a young man ran off into a field . |
| 12 | … a generation of writers the best of whom have taken the British novel off into a variety of experimental directions … which have challenged and reconstituted the mimetic constituents of fiction while not dismissing its realistic sources . |
| 13 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 14 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 15 | ‘ This way , ’ she said firmly , and plunged off into a perfumery hall of gleaming marble , as lush as some Byzantine church . |
| 16 | Tiw asked , trailing off into a mumble as he realized that Legion had anticipated him . |
| 17 | I 'm always going off into a trance . |
| 18 | Anyone who has read The Hound of the Baskervilles will know what fate is in store for those who wander off into a mire ! |
| 19 | After exchanging a few words with him , she led him off into a corner . |
| 20 | A First Spiritualist does n't drink coffee , or eat white bread or cheese ( apart from Gorgonzola — the Good Cheese as it 's called ) , and faced by a frankfurter is liable to scoot off into a corner , whimpering . |
| 21 | Gabriel crawled off into a corner and scrabbled together a nest made out of costumes and coils of rope , and curled up in the centre of that . |
| 22 | You half expect their quiet moments to be a mere ‘ quiet before the storm ’ intro to some Metallica prog-thrash epic about hellspawn putrefaction , but then they meander into Sonic Youth discordant territory , then suddenly it 's walls of sonic bliss , then it 's off into a sample-aided , arse-quaking , ‘ Die asshole muthaf—er ’ industrial rant , then some tedious feedback wanking then … erm , that 's it . |
| 23 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 24 | He went off into a reverie , dreaming of proleptic man . |
| 25 | He let the sentence trail off into a silence that vibrated . |
| 26 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 27 | The idea of a small group of men setting off into the desert to travel hundreds of miles behind the enemy lines was not such a hare-brained scheme as might be thought . |
| 28 | I spotted the incontinent Nubian slinking off into the desert to squat behind a hill . |
| 29 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 30 | My heart ached for her as I realised that she had joined the ranks of so many others I had known , who had watched their men fly off into the dusk , never to be heard of again . |