Example sentences of "[verb] off him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 2 | Will 's young face was grave , ‘ The ale will have worn off him by then . ’ |
| 3 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 4 | But he said : ‘ The fans may not think Ian 's the best man for the job but if they lay off him for a bit then he might get it right for them . ’ |
| 5 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 6 | After the war captor and captive became friends , and Otto showed us the Zeiss binoculars which Macintyre had taken off him as a trophy of war , but had recently handed back . |
| 7 | Stuart Everton , 20 , had £1,800 taken off him by two men after the raid in Barnet , north London . |
| 8 | Thomson volleys it forward to Jochim taken off him by Phillips . |
| 9 | Gemmell Gary Crosby gets his first touch taken off him by Lewis . |
| 10 | Here 's Pearce Crosby and now Collimore taken off him by Agnew . |