Example sentences of "he [verb] off [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 2 | Next October , armed with two As and a B ( he original mark in English ) , he goes off to Manchester University to read French . |
| 3 | He rode off towards Dunbar and set sail for his dukedom of Orkney and then for Norway , where he was arrested and confined in due course in the castle of Dragsholm in Denmark . |
| 4 | He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine . |
| 5 | He bounced off towards Doone , who was writing in his notebook , and they were walking together to the big boatshed as I drove away . |
| 6 | He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness . |
| 7 | Mr Michael ‘ Whackson ’ Jackson surprised observers of the pop scene when he stopped off in London en route from his coronation as an African tribal king ( see ‘ A Bit of a Git ’ ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh no , he buggered off to Australia on some scholarship . |
| 9 | He stood a little apart from them , kicking at the scree , and then he walked off across Goughdale between the crumbling towers . |
| 10 | cos he gets off at Palmers Green . |
| 11 | When Henry II again refused , he stormed off to France , saying that he was going to go to Jerusalem . |
| 12 | He 's probably coming up to about forty six now but he , he was quite young when he started off with Traidcraft and everything . |
| 13 | He started off at Ramsbottom depot , er , a few things I did n't know about him . |
| 14 | Shortish , with dark curly hair — ’ He broke off at Montgomery 's expression . |
| 15 | In 1961 he took off for New York city to pay his respects to his latest hero , hobo and folk singer Woody Guthrie , then dying of Huntington 's Chorea ; and he returned to Minneapolis later that year a-singing and a-playing , mumbling and slurring his words , just like Woody himself . |
| 16 | A few credits shy of his degree at the University of Missouri , however , he took off for Los Angeles , ostensibly to attend art school , which he never did . |
| 17 | Then , one night , he took off from Toussus to return to Tarbes in a Turbo Trinidad , went up to FL 210 , and passed out while on autopilot . |
| 18 | Possibly the most terrifying of Rodley 's activities whilst attached to No 5 Group was a remarkable escape from destruction when he took off from Coningsby on a special mining raid , with a full load of Admiralty aerial mines , and suffered engine failure almost immediately after take-off . |
| 19 | The general legend is that he took off from Twinwood 's airfield , flew over the channel and was lost over the channel ; his plane iced up . |
| 20 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 21 | After leaving Cambridge he went off to Paris to study drawing , but soon realized that he did not have sufficient talent . |
| 22 | Jim was the star of 10 Carry Ons before he went off to America to become a Broadway star . |
| 23 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 24 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 25 | He went off to France , where , as Master of the Dykes for Henry IV , he supervised the draining of the great Poitevin marshes north of La Rochelle . |
| 26 | He went off to France . ’ |
| 27 | Supposing he did say goodbye to his commission , supposing he was selected , supposing he went off to Russia or Finland or wherever it was without even seeing her . |
| 28 | We stayed friends even though he went to university and I did n't , even though he went off to Nineveh and Distant Ophir and I did n't , even though I went into the Bank and had a steady job while he flitted from one bit of temporary work to another and eventually ended up teaching English as a foreign language in a side street off the Edgware Road . |
| 29 | He went off to Italy one year with his cousin and fellow-artist , Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones . |
| 30 | And I hated it when he went off to Italy like that , without telling me . |