Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 2 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 3 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 4 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 5 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 6 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 7 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you , now take your letter to Hay , then hurry home ! ’ he called as he rode off into the distance . |
| 9 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 10 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 11 | He rides off on the bicycle , my bicycle , which is too small for him . |
| 12 | Blanche thanked the man for his help and he loped off down the corridor , jangling his keys . |
| 13 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 14 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 15 | Resolving to ‘ quit all my friends and tear myself away from my home ’ , he headed off along the North African coast in the direction of Mecca , driven onwards by what he described as ‘ an overmastering impulse from within' . |
| 16 | Guido simply winked back at her and told Silvia with a smile , as he headed off across the garden , ‘ Be sure to show her the games room while you 're at it . |
| 17 | All Cantona would say as he headed off for a quick trip to Paris before preparing for Sunday 's derby clash was : ‘ I enjoyed my debut . ’ |
| 18 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 19 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |
| 20 | He moved off along the shelves , reading as he went . |
| 21 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 22 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 23 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 24 | He wandered off into the shadow , his head tilted backwards . |
| 25 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 26 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 27 | He staggered off towards a nearby Black Maria ( preferring , at this point , arrest to sudden death ) , jumped in the back and was greeted by one of the officers with the words ‘ fascist scum ’ and a ‘ boot in the face ’ . |
| 28 | He strolled off to the surgery , Matey still fussing about him . |
| 29 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 30 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |