Example sentences of "his [noun pl] and [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop . |
| 2 | Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels . |
| 3 | Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day . |
| 4 | Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th . |
| 5 | Then he scrambled to his feet and hared off between the trees . |
| 6 | The priest staggered to his feet and waddled off with an air of drunken disdain . |
| 7 | While the creature sought height for another sweep Hrun scrambled to his feet and set off at a dead run for the woods at the edge of the arena . |
| 8 | Nearly fifty years ago a posh , lanky young man packed his bags and made off into the undergrowth of England . |
| 9 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 10 | She simply got up , scrambled some old jeans on , pinched one of his shirts and went off on her bike . |