Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | And perhaps the most difficult one to remember is the easiest of the lot , the acid plus the metal cos there 's none of the usual stuff , no salt no water just the hydrogen coming off . |
| 2 | The sun had shone so that , after their lemon meringue pie , they had come out here , where the long-haired cat danced about the lawn , and Gaily had noticed the back-gate swinging off its hinges . |
| 3 | The spawning fish are usually so engrossed in their own activities that will hardly notice the flash going off . |
| 4 | You could spend all day pulling the plastic-covered coil , the skin coming off your hands , sweat gathering all over you . |
| 5 | He had arrived late with other NICRA leaders from Belfast , and seeing the march moving off , he ran to its head . |
| 6 | Bulbs in pale globes lit the corridor at intervals , the light reflecting off shiny walls . |
| 7 | Marie turns to look at me , and I can just see the light shining off her eyes . |
| 8 | The challenge of the light going off was : Come this way ; come further in . |
| 9 | And the wind drifting off from the island . |
| 10 | Mr Benjamin Gumpert for the prosecution said the only thing Miss Deeley could think to do was to stop the car driving off — she went to the back of the vehicle . |
| 11 | That was Fiona , in the bed , on the bed , covers half off , the only light in the room coming from a little candle by the bedside , her hair spilled on the pillow ( the other pillow was on the floor ) … and that was Lachlan Watt , wrapped round her , body bucking like some horse , his hands at her neck , at one breast , in her hair , cupping her neck ; the covers sliding off , Fiona putting her arms wide , clutching at the bottom sheet of the bed at one side , clutching the edge of the bedside table with the other . |
| 12 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 13 | — HOWARD Wilkinson yesterday turned on the pundits writing off Leeds United 's championship chances . |
| 14 | Good choice , the yellow showing off her tan nicely . |
| 15 | Cos they 've painted the Telecom writing off it . |
| 16 | If he 's had more time between the engine signing off and the aircraft hitting the ground , he could probably have dumped the drop tanks and jettisoned the canopy . |
| 17 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 18 | They are identical in the same way that the articles coming off a well-engineered assembly line are identical . |
| 19 | I thought it a bit extreme to take the unit off as I 've found a much simpler way of stopping this problem of the springs sounding off in the back . |
| 20 | We were sitting in the hall finishing off our meal of light ale , freshly baked bread and strips of salted pork , when the others drifted down to join us . |
| 21 | The question is whether or not the syndicates running off their future liabilities did so in utmost good faith by revealing all pertinent facts about the contract . |
| 22 | If the syndicates running off their contracts were aware of the problems that were going to occur and did not inform Outhwaite , then they were not acting in utmost good faith . |
| 23 | Gerry Daly also begins to introduce plants into the conservatory starting off with cacti and succulents which are the most successful to grow in that environment . |
| 24 | The Trunchbull stood in the playground dusting off her hands . |
| 25 | We were soon splashing about in the surf washing off weeks of dirt accumulated in the slit trenches . |
| 26 | that it came to make the amazing sounds , okay , and then after that , er , this is another thing it leads to is there 's going to be a break down in your sound machine , okay , there 's gon na be a break down in your , in your entire robotic machine , movement in our machine , and that break down could be due to some of the workers going off and getting some of them erm you know , one , er part of the machine breaking down on the whole , sound changes , the movement changes and we 're going to watch how this robotic machine changes as it breaks down , it could be sound shut down it could be it could be anything you choose , but I want it anyway , leave it to you so all you do is choose a profession , think of something that is , comes to life to you , in movement and in sound , okay , so let's get into groups of , see how many they are , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , okay let's get into groups of four then , okay is that right , one , two , three , four , one , oh five , four , five , just get your group into a work in , I thank you if you do n't get |
| 27 | A vignette is an illustration without border or frame , the picture shading off into the surrounding paper . |
| 28 | Three thousand miles away in North Hollywood , in November , the man closes the door behind him and stands in the foyer taking off his hat . |
| 29 | It 's only because he wants to prevent the bomb going off that this belief of his makes him shoot . |
| 30 | In the past , according to Mackenzie , they used to sit at opposite ends of the site firing off hostile letters to each other . |