Example sentences of "off [prep] his [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next minute three blokes come from nowhere and bash him up take his money and drive off in his car and take the girl . |
| 2 | It was the third time Hillman has been sent off in his career and having been suspended for 20 weeks for his last offence , can expect a lengthy suspension for his latest misdemeanour . |
| 3 | He breaks off from his wine-bibbing and sewing activities at the back of the stage to step forward and talk directly to the audience , as do the four others involved in his life . |
| 4 | He inspected the blood that came off on his hand and swore again . |
| 5 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 6 | Then one day I discovered that he was borrowing them to show off at his dinners and returning them the next morning . |
| 7 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |