Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mihal 's goblin nagged at him to go off in search of weapons and warfare . |
| 2 | He 's probably got a private cache of cheap cider or meths hidden somewhere under a paving slab to help him nod off at nights , and a pile of newspapers to keep him warm . |
| 3 | ‘ If I feel the situation warrants it , I can arrange to get him lifted off by helicopter and flown to the nearest civilian hospital . |
| 4 | A fellow whose hip operation and general physical incapacity does n't stop him going off to gaming-houses gets my vote , even if he does have a tendency to gurn on endlessly about obscure dates in the past of no interest to anyone . ’ |
| 5 | Well if you see him going off to golf |
| 6 | Only about 200 molecules need to hit the antennae of the male , for him to fly off in search of the female . |
| 7 | But he le , they let him go off on holiday in the end . |
| 8 | Howley , an ICI man , also took charge of two South American club finals our splendid 1964 photograph shows him setting off from Darlington station for Montevideo . |
| 9 | He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight . |
| 10 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 11 | And he goes off to school , and he tells all his mates . |
| 12 | Next October , armed with two As and a B ( he original mark in English ) , he goes off to Manchester University to read French . |
| 13 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 14 | He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine . |
| 15 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 16 | So ‘ Thank you , Lubor , ’ she accepted quietly , and received another of his beaming smiles before , the way clear , he moved off into traffic . |
| 17 | He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness . |
| 18 | Mr Michael ‘ Whackson ’ Jackson surprised observers of the pop scene when he stopped off in London en route from his coronation as an African tribal king ( see ‘ A Bit of a Git ’ ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh no , he buggered off to Australia on some scholarship . |
| 20 | He stood a little apart from them , kicking at the scree , and then he walked off across Goughdale between the crumbling towers . |
| 21 | He walked off in front of her and Jenna had no choice at all ; she followed and only had time to glare at him reproachfully as he opened the door and stood aside for her , and then Marguerite was there . |
| 22 | cos he gets off at Palmers Green . |
| 23 | Unfortunately and inexplicably , he breaks off in mid-sentence ( about finance ) on 18 December , leaving us uninformed on the major discussions leading to the abrupt dissolution on 22 January 1655 . |
| 24 | When Henry II again refused , he stormed off to France , saying that he was going to go to Jerusalem . |
| 25 | He started off as doctor in the house , then he moved to doctor at sea and now he 's doctor in trouble , as a result of these Government policies . |
| 26 | He 's probably coming up to about forty six now but he , he was quite young when he started off with Traidcraft and everything . |
| 27 | He started off at Ramsbottom depot , er , a few things I did n't know about him . |
| 28 | The prosecution 's success rate does not augur well for the two trials which will really test the quality of Boesky 's information and the deal that he pulled off with government lawyers . |
| 29 | Shortish , with dark curly hair — ’ He broke off at Montgomery 's expression . |
| 30 | He broke off in mid-sentence , as if suddenly realising who he was talking to , and abruptly left her for Mary Deare . |