Example sentences of "he [verb] off in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 3 | He headed off in the direction of the kitchen , and she made a feeble effort to straighten her leg , wincing in pain . |
| 4 | another driver says he came off in a field saw stars for a few seconds but he 's alright … |
| 5 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're not fucking likely to get that ! were Sid 's last words as he walked off in the direction of the latrine . |
| 8 | I mean he started off in the Met er did his training and everything and then I think he 's up here somewhere now . |
| 9 | When he broke off in the middle of the sentence , she glanced up at him curiously and was completely taken by surprise when he pulled her into his arms and kissed her . |
| 10 | He went off in the direction of some green doors that bore the legend ‘ Narcissus Clothing ’ , muttering , ‘ That 'll do , that 'll do . ’ |
| 11 | He went off in the direction of the river and the dark bulk of the flatboat . |
| 12 | ‘ Tuesday was the day he went off in the van and came back with a bruised face ; presumably you 've got a record of the people he called on that day ? |
| 13 | As he strode off in a pair of pre-war jodhpurs and a moth-eaten jacket ( wardrobe was never his strong point ) , I remember thinking how thin his legs looked . |
| 14 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
| 15 | When servicing your " fridge " choose a service engineer whom you can trust and insist that he collects any gas that he bleed off in a proper cylinder . |
| 16 | It 's beginning to happen in Frankfurt and Paris , but … ’ he trails off in a manner sufficient to make the Continentals want to cut the United Kingdom adrift . |
| 17 | And yet — what kind of a monster would he be if he ran off in the opposite direction ? |
| 18 | Lara had played just where he left off in the World Cup , where he was comfortably the leading West Indian run-scorer with 333 at 47 . |
| 19 | He left by the gatehouse , openly , and took the road along the Foregate , in case anyone happened to notice and check that he set off in the appropriate direction . |