Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you wanted tea you could either have a pot of tea , or a ‘ cinema tea ’ , which was a pot of tea and a plate on which was a sandwich with the crusts cut off , which also represented something , and a cake . |
| 2 | Gemma will only eat her Chum if it is sliced and made into dainty triangular sandwiches — with the crusts cut off ! |
| 3 | Malc 's Mom held a small reception for us , doing the catering herself ( potted meat sandwiches with the crusts cut off ) and paid for a four-day honeymoon in Blackpool , where the landlady would sell us contraceptives — I was n't showing , and pride forced us to put on an act — but said we were too young to smoke and refused us cigarettes . |
| 4 | Last season ended with a ferocious row over the Bank Holiday scheduling of the Schweppes Cup semi-finals , though as usual the clubs backed off , their threats as empty as ever . |
| 5 | The programmes started off as the ‘ Education by Radio ’ series broadcast by the Roman Catholic station San Rafael . |
| 6 | The fastenings flew off my jodhpurs and there had wriggled their way round my knees by the time the pony pulled up . |
| 7 | The isotopes give off long-lasting alpha radiation and the waste will remain dangerous for 3000 years or more . |
| 8 | He died during the blockade ( when the Germans cut off supplies to Leningrad and almost one million people died ) but I rebuilt my life through my work . ’ |
| 9 | The contacts paid off . |
| 10 | You know how it is Elsie when you go to the show in August and they have those horses jumping and you are waiting for one of the riders to fall off . |
| 11 | When Fardine whistled the birds shot off in the direction of the Jama Masjid ; another whistle and they returned . |
| 12 | The birds went off at noisy full-throttle , right through a herd of deer which had been grazing quietly till then . |
| 13 | Here the X-rays knock off chlorine atoms one after another until there are only VOC-like compounds left , which are finally destroyed . |
| 14 | The ordeal is over : the Namibians show off the Sicily Trophy after beating Hong Kong 26–12 in the catania final . |
| 15 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 16 | Left to right Pushing through the bracken at nant yr Annell ; the briefing before the cyclists set off ; outstripping Shanks 's pony |
| 17 | Mm , well I mean that 's what they 're gon na do take the eye test charge off and the teeth charge off as soon as they get in , well it 'll all materialize do n't they ? |
| 18 | Erm You know the ring er the r er roundabout as you go down Monkgate , er one one of the l the roads goes off to Huntington Road and the other one is is Heworth Green and then the other road goes off now to Sainsburys . |
| 19 | He appeared absolutely confident that even if the bombs went off , we would survive . |
| 20 | The bombs went off at lunch-time near a busy Boots chemist and a McDonalds hamburger restaurant packed with children and teenagers . |
| 21 | er we have er a ski machine coming from Gloucester which is going to let people have a go and er get them in the right position , and when they do it right all the bells go off , so it 's a fun day for people to come and have a go on things . |
| 22 | Other odd features include the representation of hands one with the fingers cut off , the other painted red and the fact that the lower edge of the painted horses coincides very neatly with the water level . |
| 23 | The fingers burn off like twigs . |
| 24 | An official decision by the authorities to switch off electricity to student dormitories at 11 p.m. led to unrest on campus . |
| 25 | At the other end of the scale , we are deaf to some of the frequencies given off by jangling keys or screeching brakes , cutting off at around 20 000 hertz . |
| 26 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 27 | Tory turned back for a last look at the rejected blooms as the ponies moved off . |
| 28 | A burst of automatic fire up front and to our left brings the column to a halt as we then squat on the wet ground and watch the tracers shoot off across the night sky . |
| 29 | But the hens eased off here for the the start of the the cultivate ley the land . |
| 30 | The BMA called a press conference on the emigration of doctors an hour beforehand , half the journalists went off to that , and the fierce women sent along by the pressure groups whom I had invited to liven up the occasion terrorised the few press men who remained into almost complete silence . |