Example sentences of "[verb] off with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 2 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 3 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 4 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 5 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 6 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 7 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 8 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 9 | Mike Tunnell walked off with the prized possession of a wooden spoon . |
| 10 | Club president Gordon Podmore successfully defended the sponsors trophy at Hill Valley Golf Club , Whitchurch , and the four-man team walked off with the main tournament by one Stableford point . |
| 11 | Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel . |
| 12 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 13 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 14 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 15 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 16 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 17 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 18 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 19 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 20 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 21 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 22 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 23 | Start off with the highest SPF cream and only change gradually to a lower rating . |
| 24 | We start off with the front cover sheet . |
| 25 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 26 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 27 | Later , as Mr Bagley , at 21 thought to be the youngest scheduled service pilot in the country , prepared finally to take off with the delayed passengers , he was playing down the incident . |
| 28 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 29 | Those people who went along to hear you play ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ on the ‘ Weld ’ tour got a blast of Sonic Youth , liberal idealists were shocked by your Reagan-supporting stance in the mid-'80s , your newly-won reactionary followers were soundly ticked off with the capitalist lambasting of ‘ Freedom ’ at the close of the decade … |
| 30 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |