Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1351 Edward III granted John the woodward of Raskelf a pension of 3d. a day ‘ for good service and especially because his eyes were torn out and his tongue and his fingers cut off by malefactors in the Forest of Galtres in the time when he was one of the King 's foresters there ’ . |
| 2 | Herrick looked away past him , his eyes staring off into some imaginary distance . |
| 3 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 4 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 5 | Sales of his containers took off after some direct sellers had demonstrated them . |
| 6 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 7 | But brightness was in short supply as his players trooped off to a crescendo of boos . |
| 8 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 9 | At this point , as often happened , his thoughts wandered off into irrelevant philosophical channels . |