Example sentences of "[vb past] off [pos pn] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The smoke , full of PCBs and cyanide , drifted through his office and triggered off his chest condition , ’ she said . |
| 2 | Dress your hair in the way I intended , put on my pearl necklace and — ’ Anne drew off her gold ring and carelessly dropped it on to the coverlet ‘ — my wedding-ring . |
| 3 | Hearing the man , Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down . |
| 4 | He cut off his shoulder length hair , put on a suit , and started dealing with bankers . |
| 5 | She dashed off her orange juice , and stood up . |
| 6 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 7 | Isabelle Pech pursued Richard Burley to Britain after he suddenly broke off their summer romance and disappeared . |
| 8 | At eleven forty-five , Laura Maingay switched off her cassette dictaphone for the last time and ran it back to the beginning . |
| 9 | There followed several minutes of unusually energetic teeth-scrubbing , loo-flushing and hand-washing before she returned , lay down and switched off her bedside lamp , still without uttering a word . |
| 10 | My mother looked dissatisfied , but I switched off my bedroom light and we were moving downstairs towards Robert and the tray of martinis . |
| 11 | ‘ A real northerner , then , ’ muttered the Captain as he switched off his desk lamp . |
| 12 | Emily took off her cape feeling she had found an ally . |
| 13 | He took off her mob cap and touched her dark hair which sprang up in unruly profusion . |
| 14 | Alice stood back away from the trapdoor up into the attic so that she was out of Philip 's sight , and took off her sweat shirt . |
| 15 | This is the last thing of his I 've got , ’ and she took off her gold wedding-ring and threw it in the fire . |
| 16 | Margaret Bilney of Cam in Gloucestershire cut her finger one day in 1985 , so she took off her wedding ring and put it in her purse . |
| 17 | I took off my shoulder bag and binoculars and hung them on nails hammered into the slightly crumbling concrete . |
| 18 | I took off my tin hat to feel the sun on my face . |
| 19 | I was wearing the King 's ring , but I took off my Rassendyll family ring and gave it to her . |
| 20 | I took off my battle-dress jacket . |
| 21 | Slowly I took off my wedding dress and veil . |
| 22 | He took off his trench coat , shivered in the cold , shook the dirt off the coat , put it on again and slipped behind the wheel . |
| 23 | He walked a few paces and took off his bowler hat … |
| 24 | Maxim took off his silk scarf , wiped his brow and put the scarf in his pocket . |
| 25 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 26 | Hamish took off his war bonnet and scratched his head . |
| 27 | He took off his leather glove in preparation for shaking Gentle 's hand . |
| 28 | Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped . |
| 29 | Charsky raised himself on an elbow and picked up the mug of coffee , while Anna slipped off her dressing gown and climbed into bed . |
| 30 | For a moment Edward stood there , assessing her with a cold eye , then he slipped off his linen jacket , and looked at me . |