Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ White spent much of his life balanced on the boundary between crankiness and brilliance , ’ continues Girouard ; ‘ in the end he fell off on the wrong side , and a large proportion of his last years were wasted in trying to prove that Shakespeare was Bacon . |
| 32 | Then , with an uncaring smile , he strode off through the open doorway . |
| 33 | He marched off at a brisk pace , leading his party of fifty or so , including two in bath-chairs intent on taking the tour , come hell or high water , the latter being most probable . |
| 34 | When servicing your " fridge " choose a service engineer whom you can trust and insist that he collects any gas that he bleed off in a proper cylinder . |
| 35 | He dozed off with the familiar , soothing noise of Firelight 's hay-chomping over his head . |
| 36 | But if the evening is free of specific engagements , he sets off on a well-worn route by 8.30 or 9 pm . |
| 37 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 38 | And yet — what kind of a monster would he be if he ran off in the opposite direction ? |
| 39 | He set off towards the bottom end of the square to walk down Via Roma in the direction of the sea . |
| 40 | He set off at a brisk pace for the lower station of the funicolare by Piazza Amedeo . |
| 41 | He set off at a brisk walk . |
| 42 | He set off at a fast lope , leaving her amazed that he still had enough energy to move so quickly , but also puzzled . |
| 43 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 44 | He set off on a long rambling account of something that had happened in the bar that afternoon . |
| 45 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |
| 46 | He backed off with a satisfied twist of his mouth . |
| 47 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |