Example sentences of "off his [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he did , shouting and screaming , they tried to grab hold of him but only succeeded in ripping off his jacket sleeve as he bounced back over the wall . |
| 2 | Jane was able to sketch nearly one hundred ships , as well as paying off his mess bill by painting decorative panels in his host ship 's wardroom . |
| 3 | ‘ A real northerner , then , ’ muttered the Captain as he switched off his desk lamp . |
| 4 | But the father-of-five fought back to come off his life support machine and improve enough to be moved into a general ward . |
| 5 | The mounting violence came as the parents of Tim Parry , the 12-year-old victim of the IRA 's Warrington bombing , made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine . |
| 6 | Scott tore off his mike thinking , It must be five in the morning in France . |
| 7 | He walked a few paces and took off his bowler hat … |
| 8 | ‘ The smoke , full of PCBs and cyanide , drifted through his office and triggered off his chest condition , ’ she said . |
| 9 | He cut off his shoulder length hair , put on a suit , and started dealing with bankers . |
| 10 | He took off his trench coat , shivered in the cold , shook the dirt off the coat , put it on again and slipped behind the wheel . |
| 11 | The grey-haired bandit tore off his stocking mask , sank to his knees and gasped : ‘ Mind my heart . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He moved , turning off his reading lamp and yawning . |
| 14 | THE Prince of Wales was expected to shake off his back injury to take part in the annual Garter ceremony at Windsor this afternoon . |
| 15 | Ballesteros shrugged off his back trouble to shoot a superb eight under par 64 in the second round yesterday yet was not an entirely happy with his performance . |
| 16 | Let's have a sit down , ’ Otley suggested taking off his camouflage jacket and spreading it out on the grass . |
| 17 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 18 | He shrugged off his suit jacket . |
| 19 | Gittens rounded off his loan spell with a crucial equaliser in the final-match decider at Wolves . |
| 20 | Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase . |
| 21 | He 'd then take off his wrist watch and put it where he could see it as he talked . |
| 22 | A FATHER told a murder trial yesterday of the agonising decision to switch off his baby son 's life support machine after he had been severely brain damaged while in the care of the nurse Beverley Allitt . |
| 23 | Hamish took off his war bonnet and scratched his head . |
| 24 | For the first two days of the four-day event each professional would be partnered by an amateur , who would play off his club handicap . |
| 25 | Hearing the man , Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down . |
| 26 | Maxim took off his silk scarf , wiped his brow and put the scarf in his pocket . |
| 27 | He took off his leather glove in preparation for shaking Gentle 's hand . |
| 28 | Mr Braithwaite drained off his lime squash and added a couple of jiggers of rum to his empty glass . |
| 29 | The little man tore off his forage cap and twisted it in his hands . |
| 30 | At this point , he started to take off his plastic apron , indicating that he had finished with water for the day , leaving a bemused teacher reflecting on the relationship of density to ‘ strength ’ . |