Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 2 | Exhausted by the long words and the morning 's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep . |
| 3 | He had thus paid off the princes and the pope . |
| 4 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 5 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
| 6 | In 1944 her son , Dr Istvan Csicsery-Rónay , prevailed on the Soviet commander to return the contents , with which he had just made off . |
| 7 | Then he had simply skied off like a maniac — anger , she registered . |
| 8 | But he had already rung off . |
| 9 | ‘ If he had n't bunked off till I was forty I think it might have been better . |
| 10 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 11 | The longest he had ever stayed off was six months , at the first attempt . |
| 12 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 13 | He had actually dozed off , perhaps from the fumes of the exhaust , when dive-bombers screamed above and bombs began to fall . |