Example sentences of "he [vb past] off the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 2 | ’ He checked off the targets as they flared . |
| 3 | Donnelly was reckoned to be doing 150mph in sixth gear when he plunged off the road . |
| 4 | James Courtney from Dundrod only broke his wrist and suffered severe bruising of his back and shoulders , despite being hurled into a field backwards as he skidded off the road . |
| 5 | He whipped off the rag which the wind caught and blew against one of the spiked heads . |
| 6 | He led off the line and stayed in front for five of the 15 laps before driving into the pits to have a misfire cured . |
| 7 | TOMMY SMITH : ( Liverpool , Swansea and England — 1962-1979 ) : ‘ The minute he got off the coach and walked into the changing-room people would go for cover . |
| 8 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 9 | Eastwood missed two kickable penalties before he got off the mark with a 20th minute kick after Wigan were caught offside . |
| 10 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 11 | He got off the bed , uncoiling to his full height , and she felt threatened as never before . |
| 12 | He got off the bed and went around . |
| 13 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 14 | The uneasiness he felt when he got off the train returned . |
| 15 | Years after the event , an Indian revealed to Irwin 's Military Secretary that he was detailed to assassinate the viceroy on a visit to Lucknow , but , seeing his delightful smile when he got off the train , changed his mind . |
| 16 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 17 | He was aware of a slight feeling of sickness and of cold , an absence of hunger , though he had been feeling quite hungry when he got off the plane . |
| 18 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 19 | He got off the Mini , he that went flying up street , she came out of the next door . |
| 20 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 21 | He read off the screen . |
| 22 | The truth was , however , that he cast off the conversation as lightly as he would throw back a small fish . |
| 23 | Then he staggered off the pavement into the street , throwing a glance down towards the brighter lights at the junction . |
| 24 | Instead he played off the resentment of the ‘ old court ’ at their humiliations and Charles IV 's frantic appeals that the French should save Godoy from the vengeance of his enemies against Ferdinand 's craving for French backing . |
| 25 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'd have heard him all over the shop , ’ he said , ‘ and he came off the phone complaining that he 'd just lost 40,000 . |
| 27 | He held on to his charge until he came off the boat at Harwich . |
| 28 | When he came off the line he smiled his first genuine smile in Edward 's presence . |
| 29 | Bloke come and bought a Teletext with his friend , come all the way from Falmouth , he pulled on the front , paid me his money , saw the telly working , put the remote in his pocket , my son carried the telly down , put it in the back of the car the bloke shut the boot , he drove off the front , I picked up the phone he er and he just swung round off the front , the boot come open out come the telly ! |
| 30 | He laughed softly as he turned off the autostrada . |