Example sentences of "he [vb past] off " in BNC.

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1 And he made off .
2 He made off over there . ’
3 They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France .
4 He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off .
5 He made off , running very fast .
6 A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away .
7 He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’
8 He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash .
9 He made off , with the other man , in a silver metro type car with distinctive red stripes .
10 He indecently assaulted her , she woke up and raised the alarm and he made off .
11 He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 .
12 He lived off little kids , ’ the prisoner said contemptuously .
13 Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes .
14 It was a turk supporter he chucked off was n't it ?
15 Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point .
16 Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches .
17 Gorbachev , before he stalked off , saw for himself that the Lithuanian flags raised by the crowd had become symbols of freedom for Russians , too .
18 He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could .
19 He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited .
20 So as I sipped the barely brown dishwater he passed off as coffee ( at a wholly extortionate price ) I was able to thaw my limbs , re-line my stomach , rest my hand and ponder at length the best or most honest method by which to tackle the remainder of this difficult and embarrassing work of explanation .
21 he sold off all his stock
22 They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident .
23 He had to be with the Queen and so he rode off . ’
24 He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark .
25 ‘ Thank you , now take your letter to Hay , then hurry home ! ’ he called as he rode off into the distance .
26 When Sams tugged the rope , down came the money and he rode off with it on his scooter , leaving £2,500 in his haste to get away .
27 ‘ Get to it , ’ snapped Morgan as he whipped off his overcoat , refused any refreshments and eased his bulk into an armchair .
28 Hastily he whipped off shoes and socks and prepared to paddle .
29 But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone .
30 Adam saw how tired he was ; his eyelids were already half-closed as he fought off sleep .
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