Example sentences of "off his [noun sg] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRIGHTON Mark Steel is a comic who should be returned to at irregular intervals : see him too often ( and he is all over London ) and you tire of his south London patter , but go back to his schoolroom lesson after a break from the circuit , or see him off his home patch and you 'll enjoy an exercise bookful of character face-pulling , energetic storytelling and witty , like-it-is observations . |
| 2 | He moved , turning off his reading lamp and yawning . |
| 3 | Let's have a sit down , ’ Otley suggested taking off his camouflage jacket and spreading it out on the grass . |
| 4 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 5 | He 'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked . |
| 6 | Hamish took off his war bonnet and scratched his head . |
| 7 | Hearing the man , Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down . |
| 8 | Mr Braithwaite drained off his lime squash and added a couple of jiggers of rum to his empty glass . |
| 9 | The little man tore off his forage cap and twisted it in his hands . |
| 10 | Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped . |