Example sentences of "[verb] off with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 2 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 3 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 4 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 5 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 6 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 7 | I 'd have thought any normal thief would make off with the whole bag . |
| 8 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 9 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 10 | Finish off with the long , stroking movements with which you began in Step 1 . |
| 11 | Mike Tunnell walked off with the prized possession of a wooden spoon . |
| 12 | Club president Gordon Podmore successfully defended the sponsors trophy at Hill Valley Golf Club , Whitchurch , and the four-man team walked off with the main tournament by one Stableford point . |
| 13 | Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel . |
| 14 | ‘ Breaks Bass & Bleeps ’ has also flown , head in clouds , into a fourth volume , kicking off with the furious and bass , how fast can u go ? |
| 15 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 16 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 17 | Starting off with the good Presbyterian family of Mr Moffatt at the corner — one of his daughters , Mrs Victoria Mullen , married a Methodist — there followed in order Englands , Magowans , Lyttles , Bells , McClatcheys , Lambs , Ramseys and Pattons . |
| 18 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 19 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 20 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 21 | He dozed off with the familiar , soothing noise of Firelight 's hay-chomping over his head . |
| 22 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 23 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 24 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 25 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 26 | We start off with the front cover sheet . |
| 27 | There had also been recent newspaper reports of Bugis prahus putting into the atolls east of Celebes , burning the villages to the ground , and making off with the whole year 's harvest of copra the oil-bearing coconut husks — which was the inhabitants ' sole source of income . |
| 28 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 29 | Later , as Mr Bagley , at 21 thought to be the youngest scheduled service pilot in the country , prepared finally to take off with the delayed passengers , he was playing down the incident . |
| 30 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |