Example sentences of "off him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't take her eyes off him for a moment . |
| 2 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 3 | But he said : ‘ The fans may not think Ian 's the best man for the job but if they lay off him for a bit then he might get it right for them . ’ |
| 4 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 5 | We do n't even take any money off him for keep |
| 6 | The mother said she hardly took her eyes off him for a second . ’ |
| 7 | and they used to buy it all off him for studding |
| 8 | After fourteen minutes , Walston Ricketts looked to have set up Wayne Holden , only for the goalkeeper to superbly have the ball spin off him for a corner . |
| 9 | He saw the advantages that England might gain from a successful coup in Scotland by them , which would take their political pressure off him at home . |
| 10 | We 'll have the harness off him at Llanbadarn , and see to his hurts . |
| 11 | I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again . |
| 12 | ‘ And I never take my eyes off him during the show . |
| 13 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 14 | After the war captor and captive became friends , and Otto showed us the Zeiss binoculars which Macintyre had taken off him as a trophy of war , but had recently handed back . |
| 15 | They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman will wear his suit : he will not let ruffians or circumstance tear it off him in the public gaze ; he will discard it when , and only when , he wills to do so , and this will invariably be when he is entirely alone . |
| 16 | The fear followed him on to the table at the Rothmans and the man who had pillaged nine titles last season lost to world No 52 Tony Chappel — a player who had managed to take just one frame off him in two previous meetings . |
| 17 | His narrow shoulders had a permanent forward-drooping hunch , with the result that clothes seemed to hang off him in shapeless folds . |
| 18 | Stuart Everton , 20 , had £1,800 taken off him by two men after the raid in Barnet , north London . |
| 19 | Will 's young face was grave , ‘ The ale will have worn off him by then . ’ |
| 20 | Thomson volleys it forward to Jochim taken off him by Phillips . |
| 21 | Gemmell Gary Crosby gets his first touch taken off him by Lewis . |
| 22 | Here 's Pearce Crosby and now Collimore taken off him by Agnew . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 24 | I feel safe enough to bounce the truth off him like it was a joke . |
| 25 | But that holding the afternoon off him after loosing a leg I think that was really terrible aye . |
| 26 | She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial . |