Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] [v-ing] off " in BNC.

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1 Houston Texas so you 've got the rockets going off in Florida being controlled by people in Texas , why ?
2 ‘ They have got the banks peeling off and they do n't know how it 's going to operate …
3 She heard the numbers falling off and the cries of ‘ Try over-r-r-rl ’ and ‘ Edawick ! ’ as they took up station , one by one .
4 One reviewer slammed the 40-minute ‘ Blue Room ’ single as ‘ hippy excrement ’ , while the finale of ‘ UF Orb ’ finds the dolphins blasting off from Earth in a freshwater spaceship , leaving mankind to stew in his own toxic waste .
5 ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor .
6 Hugh Manson has tried for the best combination of feel and usability by planing the fingerboard to a compound radius — a medium-curved 10″ radius near the headstock , but flattening right out to 16″ as it reaches the upper frets , in order to minimise the strings choking off when you play bent notes and to allow a lower overall action .
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