Example sentences of "off with [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
2 | Maggie was about to protest that talking to Roger and Luke did not qualify as lurking , but Roger made off with a bottle in each hand and Luke had vanished again . |
3 | Perhaps he would have been better off with a pencil ! |
4 | Any surplus glue can be easily wiped off with a rag and then with solvent . |
5 | The X-ray showed clean breaks on both sides of my ankle , as if someone had miraculously scythed the pieces of bone off with a knife . |
6 | If there are problems getting the cable to the right place , start off with a piece of weighted string , which you can ‘ fish ’ through the hole you have cut , and then use this to pull the cable through . |
7 | A squeegee tool is used to smooth out the film and the excess film around the edge of the window is trimmed off with a safety knife . |
8 | Top off with a concrete mix to fix the supports securely |
9 | In it , a small child roams the streets , talking to strangers , until he finally goes off with a woman who has been wandering about pushing an empty pram . |
10 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
11 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
12 | Hare , the world 's greatest accumulator who retired after the Pilkington Cup Final in April , signed off with a club record total of 438 points last season . |
13 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
14 | The latest issue of The ARTnewsletter leads off with a report on tax bills , now being studied by committees in both houses of Congress , which are aimed at restoring the fiddle element to tax-deductible museum donations . |
15 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
16 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |
17 | A couple of bread rolls perhaps , a little plastic pack of butter and a pack of paté , nicely finished off with a plastic knife and a paper serviette . |
18 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
19 | Odd-Knut smokes a pensive roll-up , I fish , Tony photographs , Nathan wanders off with a shovel and ice drill . |
20 | Saturday morning at Brighton starts off with a flurry of activity . |
21 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
22 | Between 2 January and 6 January 1939 , for example , the brothers walked forty-two miles in the Welsh Marches ( i.e. borders — from me Old English mearc ) , and rounded them off with a stay in Great Malvern . |
23 | Any surface oil not absorbed after 10–15 minutes should be blotted off with a tissue . |
24 | Zooshing a citrus scent over an ultra-floral one finished off with a spritz of something exotic and musky before tonight 's hot date , may leave your man more bewildered than bewitched by clashing notes battling for supremacy behind your earlobes . |
25 | At Newbury this afternoon Richard Dunwoody , left behind with only 20 successes so far by the lightning Scudamore , should kick off with a winner on Atlaal , trained by John Jenkins . |
26 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |
27 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
28 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
29 | ‘ No one in particular , but I thought she 'd have been better off with a chap of her own age who would have wanted her to carry on where she was . |
30 | No one else scored very many but no one needed to , and there were still six wickets and fourteen overs in hand when King finished things off with a six . |