Example sentences of "[be] off in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're off in a heat of last night 's Speedway Division Two KO Cup clash between Middlesbrough and Newcastle at Cleveland Park |
| 2 | ‘ They are all wonderful but it only takes someone else to sit in their chair and they 're off in a mood . |
| 3 | They 're off in the Bury 20 |
| 4 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be off in a minute . ’ |
| 6 | The plaster 'll be off in a week or so . |
| 7 | The bails needed to be off in a flash but poor Stewart missed with his first swipe . |
| 8 | Hadlee professes great admiration for New Zealand 's wicketkeepers of modern times , the late Ken Wadsworth , and the incumbent record-holder , Ian Smith : ‘ But James had that ability to stand up for the one down the leg side , and the bails would be off in a flash . |
| 9 | Erm Mrs Moody from Hucknall thinks that er that leaf stem thing ought to be off in a garden somewhere . |
| 10 | Can I please because I have to be off in a few minutes . |
| 11 | Righto , I 'll be off in a bit then ! |
| 12 | Next day we were off in the train to Bath . |
| 13 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 14 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 15 | The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs . |
| 16 | But all that is off in the future . |
| 17 | Naturally I say , ‘ Hang on a minute ’ , and when I turn round she is off in the kitchen banging saucepans about . |
| 18 | He was off in a flash . |
| 19 | He was some minutes there outside the door , until he heard you stirring to come out , then he was off in a hurry . |
| 20 | He was off in a swirl of lace and black skirts . |
| 21 | Michael was livid that Hemmings , in the cloakrooms , seemed to be getting all the way with one of the girls while Crawford/Ingram was off in a corner with another girl — ‘ simply practising how long we could kiss ’ . ’ |
| 22 | Snoopy was off in a rush was n't she ? |
| 23 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 24 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 25 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |