Example sentences of "[art] man [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man ran off towards the nearby Co-op store . |
| 2 | The man ran off towards Banbury railway station , where police say they later found a weapon hidden in the men 's toilet . |
| 3 | The man ran off into nearby fields and stabbed PC Lucey in the eye when he followed . |
| 4 | ‘ What lost us the match was a rush of blood to the head when they had the man sent off . |
| 5 | The man rattled off some instructions to Franco who retreated to the end of the bar and started hunting through the bottles on a particularly high shelf . |
| 6 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 7 | The owner picked up a metal rolling pin , whereupon the man took off his metal studded belt . |
| 8 | Goodman incorrectly thought he was the man to go off but Sunderland fans were soon relieved when he stayed on the pitch . |
| 9 | Using strong language I seldom use , I yelled to the man to call off his dog . |
| 10 | Boy as I said lived during the days on sugar , yoghurts , instant coffee and toast ; then every evening the man would cook up a big casserole , one big casserole filled with fish and lots of potatoes , tinned sweetcorn , something like that , and they would eat that together in the kitchen every night at seven o'clock , before the man went off to work — he worked nights you see . |
| 11 | The man went off , muttering to himself . |
| 12 | The man went off in his brown dressing-gown . |
| 13 | Meanwhile young George Stevens had run for the policeman and as soon as the man made off he was cornered by a party of men returning to the factory . |
| 14 | Earl Siward snapped his fingers , and the man darted off . |
| 15 | But while the woman , 46-year-old Margaret Presley , of Portsmouth , Hants , was rushed inside — drip-ping with blood from serious head injuries and a broken shoulder — the man drove off without giving any details . |
| 16 | The man pulled off his jeans and stood up . |
| 17 | The man moved off to summon his superiors who , in turn , would summon the police . |
| 18 | The man broke off with a shudder . |
| 19 | Sobchak demonstrates how , with grace and elegance , a woman can let the man take off her coat ; how to be coquettish , without being vulgar , and betray interest without immediate surrender . |
| 20 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 21 | The man shambled off into the house , and the rest of us picked our way across the front garden . |
| 22 | The man rang off but was soon contacted by officers from the force 's Firearms Unit who ordered him out of the building on Crosshall Street . |
| 23 | The man stripping off his helmet as he strode down the room was tall and broad-shouldered , and moved with the leashed power of the hunter . |
| 24 | The man hurried off . |
| 25 | Muttering , ‘ Where 's Bennett , for God 's sake ? ’ the man hurried off . |
| 26 | DJ Simon Wedgewood coaxed six student couples from Cardiff University under the spotlight and , in a variation of Blind Man 's Bluff , persuaded the men to take off their shirts which were put in a heap on the dancefloor . |
| 27 | Sadler navigated the party to within a mile of the town , and splitting into groups the men headed off into the darkness laden with their bombs . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 29 | The men set off in fear and trepidation , singing and whistling to bolster their courage . |
| 30 | He was ice-cold and the men took off their clothes to cover him . |