Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 32 | As he drove off down the street he saw the curtains of the front bedroom close . |
| 33 | And he said as he drove off down the road it went rattle rattle rattle rattle and there were these hole little holes in the side of his van . . |
| 34 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 35 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 36 | We know that Jack is full of himself as he shows off about the fact that he can sing the top C♯ in a scale , which is very impractical . |
| 37 | When he turned off at a small junction taking a no-through road , she stopped and watched him out of sight . |
| 38 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 39 | He raced off across the rubble . |
| 40 | The faint hope offered by Springfield 's diagnosis of Brett 's condition , lent wings to his heels as he raced off down the road towards the vehicles parked at the front gates under Fenton 's care . |
| 41 | Moore , he rocketed off to the very opposite of metaphysical extremes . |
| 42 | He walked off through the press of people now all but blocking the way to the door . |
| 43 | With a nod , and another terse look , he walked off down the corridor . |
| 44 | Then he walked off towards an irregular stone monument near the graves , a memorial to the 543 Jews from the area murdered by the Germans . |
| 45 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 46 | He jumped the queue at the ticket counter — his stub realized $I8- but he went on standing there in line , his head babyishly lolling with impatience , before he peeled off into the store-flanked tunnels . |
| 47 | And then he rushed off to the bathroom and started throwing up . ’ |
| 48 | Found a tune , he took up his pen and he wrote some words , and according to the story , according to the legend , the next day at day-break , he rushed off to the Mayor Dietrich , and was able to say , I have done it . |
| 49 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 50 | He signed off after a fighting display at the famous Daytona racetrack in America two years ago . |
| 51 | Meanwhile , he shuffled off towards the tube station and Chancery Lane . |
| 52 | He switched off from the incident , lay back and analysed the day 's events . |
| 53 | Now , joined by the second man , whom he called Butch , he started off through the undergrowth in search of Mary . |
| 54 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 55 | He started off as a counter clerk |
| 56 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 57 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 58 | I mean he started off in the Met er did his training and everything and then I think he 's up here somewhere now . |
| 59 | I know I should have told you but … ’ he trailed off with a shrug and stared dejectedly at his feet . |
| 60 | And if they throw me out … ’ he trailed off with a shrug . |