Example sentences of "off [prep] his [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a nuisance going off for his weekend break in the . |
| 2 | She had so hoped that Josh would like David ‘ He s tired , ’ she apologized , and took Josh off for his afternoon nap He kicked and screamed , furious that his mother 's attention was being distracted from himself . |
| 3 | Mary washes Basil off after his schooling session . |
| 4 | Sister Cooney , noting the way he trembled , helped him off with his dressing gown and tucked him in . |
| 5 | Hoping to attract the new emperor 's attention , Mozart set off with his brother-in law , in his own coach , arriving at Frankfurt on 28 September , after a quick , six-day journey . |
| 6 | ‘ O'course t is none o ’ my business but you wo n't find Maurice if it 's him you want to see ; he went off in his li'l truck when we was sitting down to our dinners . |
| 7 | While Labour 's campaign is slick and glossy , the Lib Dem election literature was run off in his back bedroom in Redcar . |
| 8 | He detected a slackening off in his examination work , once he had gained his Exhibition — ‘ a moral weakness , neglect of order in my work and play ’ ; often these ‘ moods ’ sent him back to his digs almost beside himself . |
| 9 | Sara , busy about her own affairs , and always up early , occasionally caught a glimpse of him driving off in his estate car in the morning . |
| 10 | Her husband was recently laid off from his construction job and is now employed part-time as a night watchman . |
| 11 | When he took off on his return flight in a small twin-engined plane , one of the engines failed , and the pilot , whether by accident or design I do n't know , did a swift turn and made an emergency landing back on the airfield , missing the Control Tower by about three feet . |
| 12 | They were settled there as early as 1899 , and it was from that address that the only one of their children to marry — Henry James — set off on his wedding day , 8 September 1902 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the only alternative seems to be for the baby to be looked after by her mother , and she will go and visit in the evenings when her father has gone off to his night work . |
| 14 | He hurled a chair across the set , smashing lamps and vases , then stormed off to his dressing room . |
| 15 | I called as Tumbleweed rushed off to his bog watch . |