Example sentences of "he [vb past] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 2 | well there is that would n't taken him went off to the ch |
| 3 | " I 'm not seeing a girl , " Patrick insisted with a grin , his sister was as eager to see him married off as his mother was against the idea . |
| 4 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 5 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 6 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 7 | And he made off . |
| 8 | He made off over there . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He then ran off towards the Alexander yacht club and is thought to have smashed a couple of windows as he made off . |
| 11 | He made off , running very fast . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 15 | He made off , with the other man , in a silver metro type car with distinctive red stripes . |
| 16 | He indecently assaulted her , she woke up and raised the alarm and he made off . |
| 17 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 18 | He lived off little kids , ’ the prisoner said contemptuously . |
| 19 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 20 | It was a turk supporter he chucked off was n't it ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 23 | Gorbachev , before he stalked off , saw for himself that the Lithuanian flags raised by the crowd had become symbols of freedom for Russians , too . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | he sold off all his stock |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had to be with the Queen and so he rode off . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |