Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 2 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 3 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 4 | Then he nudged Wa again , and sent him scurrying off down a nearby alley into the heart of the city . |
| 5 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 10 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 11 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 12 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 13 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 14 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 15 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |
| 16 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 17 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 18 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 19 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 20 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 21 | Moore , he rocketed off to the very opposite of metaphysical extremes . |
| 22 | Then he walked off towards an irregular stone monument near the graves , a memorial to the 543 Jews from the area murdered by the Germans . |
| 23 | He jumped the queue at the ticket counter — his stub realized $I8- but he went on standing there in line , his head babyishly lolling with impatience , before he peeled off into the store-flanked tunnels . |
| 24 | ‘ How many more of you are- ’ he broke off with a stifled gasp as a hand clutched the skin exposed at the side of his neck by his wide and unbuttoned collar , and he folded to the ground . |
| 25 | He broke off as a natural brunette called Kim came from behind one of the screens . |
| 26 | But Ven , she discovered , was not prepared to let her off the hook , and , ‘ Why … ’ he began to challenge , ‘ … when you 're honest , I know it , yet have begun on a path of deception to one particular end — why , when it 's so important to your sister whom — you love … ’ an alert look suddenly came to his eyes , and he broke off for a brief moment before continuing , his serious dark eyes holding hers ‘ … a sister whom you 'd do anything for , as you proved when you left England and came here — why are you ready to leave now , without another thought ? ’ |
| 27 | But soon he took off from the earthly tediousness of the concrete for a glide in purer air . |
| 28 | He ambled off towards the nearest tray . |
| 29 | He turned and rushed back towards the cage ; but finding the gate barred , he skittered off towards the nearest group of spectators , hotly pursued by his enemy . |
| 30 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |