Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] off a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 2 | Television celebrity , Leslie Crowther has been allowed home from hospital , four months after his car crashed off a motorway . |
| 3 | His return sparked off a power struggle within the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) , the country 's leading opposition group . |
| 4 | BSAC medical officer Dr Peter Wilmhurst , of St Thomas ' Hospital , London , says : ‘ Divers are entitled to treatment under the NHS Act in the same way as a skater who breaks a leg on the ice or a rider who breaks his back falling off a horse . |
| 5 | A tanker driver died yesterday when his lorry veered off a motorway and exploded on a railway line , sending a fireball into the air . |
| 6 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |