Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] off with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |