Example sentences of "[to-vb] off [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Jones and Chris Gill from Oxford are shortly to set off to see the pyramids . |
| 2 | ‘ Therese does n't want him to go off to paint the Belgian ambassador 's wife . ’ |
| 3 | This time last year I was sitting with twenty other people in some dull sixth-form room , being told about participles or Corn Laws by someone no one had ever heard of , and here I am , just one year later , on my own in a solidly built house in North Oxford , a cup of coffee on the floor beside me , giving my views on sense-data to a well-known professional philosopher who then has to break off to take a call from the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | One hears from the piano writing why Berlioz praised Lubeck 's technique : he does n't have to show off to demonstrate a familiarity with the keyboard , for this music is at its most fetching when at its simplest . |
| 5 | Sunil made a brief , VIP-like appearance , and then had to rush off to get a ticket . |