Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terence Trent D'Arby-Neither Fish Nor Flesh ( CBS 1989 ) IT WO N'T do to write D'Arby off as a pathetic Prince impersonator , because his roots are rather different-more Sixties London than Detroit funk . |
| 2 | Few now want to follow Philadelphia 's lead and cut museums off from the public purse altogether — a policy that would surely up-end the Met 's unrivalled success at striking the right balance between showbiz and the unworldly . |
| 3 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 4 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 5 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 6 | The Mary Chain got things off to a low-key start with tasteful semi-acoustic versions of three songs and were followed by Collins in an extremely silly hat ( see above ) who chundered through his first solo single , ‘ Do n't Shilly Shally ’ . |
| 7 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 8 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 9 | Another letter in The Times , from Sir Robert Robinson , drew attention to Florey 's work and set enquirers off on a new tack to Oxford , but their journeys turned out to be unrewarding . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 12 | This often happens , for example , when a research assistant pulls information off for a less computer literate academic . |
| 13 | Strewing guts about is the same as letting squibs off in a public venue , all comes under Fireworks byelaw . ’ |
| 14 | The latter split between what were to become known as ‘ weekend hippies ’ taking time off from the straight world , and those in Miles words , ‘ still trying ’ . |
| 15 | Until after 1900 the Belgian miners took time off at the right season ( if necessary by an annual ‘ potato strike ’ ) to look after their potato patches . |
| 16 | Following a brief chat with my fellow editorial staffers concerning such unimportant matters as choosing a writer or an illustrator appropriate to the piece , I will go to see Brian , our in-house number-cruncher and say something like , ‘ Hello Brian , ’ ( I always like to get meetings off to an informal and uncontroversial start ) ‘ I 'd just like to discuss next week 's cover story . ’ |
| 17 | And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men … |
| 18 | And United could have scored more they put the Portsmouth goal under a fair bit of pressure … the ball was cleared off the line a couple of times … new boy Rogan nearly finished things off with a fourth but a what a great start to a new season for Brian Horton 's men … |
| 19 | It would get things off to a good start . |
| 20 | I thought it would get things off to a good start . ’ |
| 21 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 22 | I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets . |
| 23 | Her wicked guardians try to marry Cindy off to a local nob ; a disastrous fire frustrates their plans and , as we are fully expecting , love triumphants . |
| 24 | Now does your er assessed requirement , or your assessment of needs , still remain at sixty three hectares , and if it does if it does , is that all taken care off within the one hundred and forty five hectares for the Greater York figure ? |
| 25 | KEITH Richards has taken time off from the Rolling Stones to perform with his own band , the X-Pensive Winos . |
| 26 | Gedge paid tribute to the postage by firing letters off to every small-time promoter whose address he could find . |
| 27 | As well as Hitchcock and Flynn , Mark Gill weighed in with two and Tim McCann rounded things off with a glorious strike minutes from the end . |
| 28 | Written at the end of the Fifties , it was a play ahead of its time , tackling issues of illegitimacy and inter-racial relations with a feminist approach , and set Cuka off on a distinguished career . |