Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 2 | Or hack off his head and boil it |
| 3 | Henry Druce is features editor of Outdoor Action — when he 's not out hillwalking , mountain biking , skiing or falling off his windsurfer |
| 4 | ‘ Not now ! ’ he bellows , without raising his head from the printout that spills off his desk and carpets most of the floor . |
| 5 | Mitch stood under the light in a tartan shirt and jeans that hung off his buttocks . |
| 6 | It was Estella that started off his obsession with wanting more . |
| 7 | Little Peter Quince thought this a symptom of facial neuralgia , or worse , a precursor of the hydrocephalus that carried off his sister … nyum-nyum … |
| 8 | The rider saw Leithen and got off his bike . |
| 9 | It was never clear exactly what in his wife 's behaviour had felt so rejecting and triggered off his attack on her , but the attack had occurred shortly after the birth of their first child . |
| 10 | ‘ The smoke , full of PCBs and cyanide , drifted through his office and triggered off his chest condition , ’ she said . |
| 11 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 12 | His eyes came up and she saw his jaw tense before the shutters came down and blanked off his thoughts . |
| 13 | Peter Mueller 's experience brought him no great success , either racing or on the French roads ; the new roundabout in Bourg St Maurice , on the road to Val d'Isere , had nearly caught us out , and later we heard that Mueller had crashed and written off his car . |
| 14 | And then he sat down and stripped off his shirt . |
| 15 | The pathologist looked at his own hands and stripped off his surgical gloves , dropping them into a plastic bag . |
| 16 | The Anti-Rex smiled sweetly upon Ed Kelley , leaned forward as if to kiss his cheek and ripped off his other ear . |
| 17 | A monkey in a fringed vest , a plumed sombrero tied to its head , shot into my legs , pulled at my trench coat and showed off his teeth . |
| 18 | His trousers were slightly too short , and showed off his purple nylon socks and his tar-stained desert boots . |
| 19 | It was me who bathed him and turned off his light . |
| 20 | He put in another , and turned off his torch as he stepped out of the cupboard . |
| 21 | At one point one of the subjects went berserk during a psychomotor tracking task , screaming in terror and pulling off his electrodes , falling to the floor and sobbing and muttering incoherently about a gorilla . |
| 22 | ‘ Come here , Dickon ! ’ he shouted , and threw off his blanket . |
| 23 | At the hospital with its crowd of out-patients and wards full of in-patients he was so busy , so plagued and hassled and rushed off his feet , and the women so submissive and ignorant or merely sullen , that he forgot about principles . |
| 24 | Pulling off his black leather jacket and kicking off his shoes , he threw himself on to a bed . |
| 25 | A man sitting in a group , leaning against the wall of the shrine , starts shaking and stands up , throwing aside the woollen blanket he wears as a shawl and kicking off his shoes . |
| 26 | Charles frowned and cleared his throat , tentatively he took the boots from Hari and kicking off his leather slippers , bent forward and gingerly drew the boots on to his feet , lacing them up with trembling fingers . |
| 27 | He got to his feet and brushed off his trousers . |
| 28 | Futcher said : ‘ Short of getting a double-barrelled gun and blowing off his head , I do n't think he can be stopped . ’ |
| 29 | Such a weight of worry and terror and contempt had been lifted off his shoulders that he sometimes thought , when the end-music started up beneath the wagon and the audience began to toss like a field of corn , that he could spread his arms , if he wanted , and soar off his ledge , above their heads and round the church tower . |
| 30 | ‘ About here , ’ Tammuz said , and pulled off his T-shirt . |