Example sentences of "he be off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy McGlashan — why had he been off work that Tuesday ? |
| 2 | Yet apart from the story of his binding , a long account of the finding of a wife for him , for the bulk of which he is off stage , and a story about him on his death-bed which is primarily about his sons , Jacob and Esau , there is but one chapter devoted to him ( ch. |
| 3 | Running into him in the paddock early on Sunday morning , I sense all is not well with him ; he is nervous , he bites his nails , he runs his hands through his thick hair , he keeps scampering through the paddock to the hideous toilets , he is off his feed . |
| 4 | This time he does n't stir ; he is off the beach at last , out beyond the shallows , in deep still water . |
| 5 | After all , he 's off camera . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's off sulking most likely , ’ said Harbour , and started to tell her his reasons for believing O'Hara 's performance that evening had been the equal of any of the great Shakespearian roles as portrayed by the likes of Ralphie or Larry . |
| 7 | This one time , he 's off balance . ’ |
| 8 | Oh he 's off work and you see he has all the time off for councils and you know it is n't as if he 's there fulltime . |
| 9 | think he 's off his chump you know . |
| 10 | Industrial Engineer Alan McDonald may be desk bound during the week — but at weekends , he 's off performing feats that most mortals would regard as extreme . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's off my fucking manor . |
| 12 | I think he 's running a temperature , and he 's off his food . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's off duty , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 14 | And even now he ca n't believe he 's off the hook . |
| 15 | And even now he ca n't believe he 's off the hook . |
| 16 | he 's off his jump sort of thing . |
| 17 | He 's off the phone now Gav . |
| 18 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 19 | That 's good he 's , he 's off the white bread now is n't he ? |
| 20 | Oh he 's off Monday ? |
| 21 | Well we do n't know any details yet , I think he 's , he 's off work . |
| 22 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 23 | He 's off his painkillers |
| 24 | he 's off his morphine completely |
| 25 | Once this biopsy 's cleared , he 's off his painkillers , they , they were his big drugs were n't they ? |
| 26 | He 's off kissing . |
| 27 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought he was off drugs ? ’ |
| 29 | He was off school quite often with headaches . |
| 30 | He was off duty , I was told . |