Example sentences of "[verb] off on his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 2 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 3 | He used to go off on his own and come back in a sort of daze , as if he could n't understand anything we said to him . |
| 4 | And then , suddenly , she sees Dieter going off on his own , and decides to have it out with him . |
| 5 | A strange man indeed , disdaining now to join the wedding party escorting her and her bridegroom to their carriage but going off on his own down one of the narrow churchyard pathways , towards the dressmaker Miss Adeane . |
| 6 | He had been unable to prevent Pickerage going off on his own on Sunday . |
| 7 | This happens maybe once every couple of months but recently , every couple of weeks , he trots off on his own . |
| 8 | My own view is that he did not understand , nor admit to himself , the extent of his own error in starting off on his own without experienced and able people around him . |
| 9 | Better he came with her than go off on his own to do his dirty work . |
| 10 | Burke falls for Sillas and loses interest in locating father which upsets Sage , he wanders off on his own and runs across young Romanian epileptic Elina ( Elina Lowensohn ) who bizarrely turns out to be pater 's juvenile mistress . |
| 11 | He was bought a few drinks by workmates then took off on his own , round various bars , to finish the job properly . |
| 12 | His step-father , George Thomson , said at the family home in Turnberry Avenue : ‘ It is unnatural to think Nealle would have gone off on his own to the hills . |
| 13 | The idiot dog is meant to stay with Joan , but he will not , he will go off on his own little expeditions in the gorse . |
| 14 | So Charles went off on his own most of the time . |
| 15 | After dutifully inspecting the destruction at the El Azziziya barracks , where the Libyan leader lived , at the port of Sidi Balal and at Tripoli airport , as well as the damage done to the French Embassy and to civilian homes adjoining the target areas , Coleman left the media pack clamouring for phone lines at the El Khebir hotel or doing ‘ stand-ups ’ on the roof and went off on his own . |
| 16 | Ned at this point went off on his own , on the ‘ Kiwi Experience ’ bus which specialises in taking young folk to the more adventurous tourist offerings . |
| 17 | He might be strong in his own opinions but he did not go haring off on his own . |
| 18 | Having been driven with the children into Mondano he had wandered off on his own unexplained concerns . |
| 19 | After working in his father 's wire rope works at Halifax , Holroyd Smith struck off on his own , no doubt evoking a sigh of parental relief as he could not stop inventing and improving everything around him , from furnaces to ladies ' corsets . |
| 20 | OLDHAM prop Mark Sheals , signed from Leigh this summer , was sent off on his first trip back to Hilton Park . |
| 21 | In that state he gave it to the boy who set off on his half-mile walk . |
| 22 | Coleridge had spent three weeks in Oxford before , on 5 July 1794 , he finally set off on his Welsh expedition , promising Southey that he would rejoin him later to make further plans for settling in America . |