Example sentences of "had [verb] off his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blast — triggered when Alan lit his gas oven — had ripped off his clothes . |
| 2 | He had stripped off his shirt as soon as he had joined in . |
| 3 | At one point , when the cab driver crashed a late amber light , Manville thought he had shaken off his pursuer , only to identify the vehicle a few moments later as it re-emerged from another side-street . |
| 4 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 5 | The Maggot had played American football until he had come off his Harley-Davidson at eighty miles an hour and permanently damaged his left knee . |
| 6 | He had come off his motor-bike . |
| 7 | Mark Gill picked up the ball in the middle of the Park and , with the Portadown defence spreadeagled and offering no challenge , he calmly lobbed it over their heads and also that of Magee who had come off his line . |
| 8 | Hyenas had torn off his legs . |
| 9 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 10 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 11 | For a dam had been breached ; the dam which had sealed off his childhood , his best self , all his early aspirations . |
| 12 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 13 | He had left off his dog collar and was losing strips of his white eyebrows , moustache and beard — the undergrowth , the perpetually springing beard-stubble was subversively blue-black . |
| 14 | He looked , he said , ‘ like a great boiled egg ’ — the once extraordinarily handsome young man was now as bald as one and the day that Ken called had left off his toupee . |
| 15 | He had shaved off his beard , and his face looked less thin and less serious than before . |
| 16 | He had shaved off his beard . |
| 17 | He had shaved off his beard again . |
| 18 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 19 | Down at the gate , Gaily had taken off his jacket and rolled up his shirt sleeves . |
| 20 | His wrinkled brow was seen , for he had taken off his helmet , and in this manner he entered , upon Bavieca , sword in hand . |
| 21 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
| 22 | He had taken off his helmet and gloves for the job , and was stabbing with a stub of lightpencil at the screenmap Manolo had given him . |
| 23 | He had taken off his fireman 's jacket and was wearing only a high-necked , short-sleeved singlet of yellowed wool , badly stained beneath the arms . |
| 24 | He had taken off his paint-stiffened apron but there was blue paint in his hair and his hands were blue , like those of the Jumblies who went to sea in a sieve . |
| 25 | When he reappeared his hair was soaked , he had taken off his shirt and was carrying a large square of sticking plaster . |
| 26 | To her relief , he was still fully dressed , although he had taken off his jacket as a concession to the almost tropical heat . |
| 27 | He had put off his armour , and rode in black and gold , with high gauntlets of purple leather , and a fine , extravagant capuchon in the same purple draped and twisted into a flaunting hat that drooped a long liripipe about his shoulders . |
| 28 | Occasionally he asked a question or sought an opinion ; you had the impression that the answer had glanced off his surface . |
| 29 | Indeed it drew from Moray the comment that this was the one matter that he had against their father : that he had married off his elder daughter , as a mere girl , to a man more than twice her age , as a matter of policy , to endeavour to attach Dunbar more firmly to the national cause , unsuccessful as this had been . |