Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] off [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALL AT SEA : Madge shows off a great , but unwinnable , prize |
| 2 | STEFFI GRAF shook off a sluggish start against Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere by winning 12 of the last 13 games to roar into the U.S. Open final at Flushing Meadow . |
| 3 | Manville peeled off a twenty , tucking it into the man 's palm . |
| 4 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 5 | Of course Carvill 's Hill started off a dead cert , yet he limped home badly beaten . |
| 6 | David Frost kicks off a new series of Sunday breakfast current affairs shows by interviewing Premier John Major , Clive James hosts a new series titled Fame In The Twentieth Century , and Selina Scott will present show business and media magazine Entertainment Express . |
| 7 | England hold off the Irish |
| 8 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 9 | 2.50:DAVID Nicholson pulled off a tremendous training performance when Duntree won at Cheltenham after two years off the track . |
| 10 | It took a wicked deflection but goalkeeper Thomson brought off a superb save . |
| 11 | Rachaela reeled off a book-established fact . |
| 12 | Parrella held off a spirited fightback from 23-year-old McMahon to win 21–19 . |
| 13 | There were checks to be done , now that Hess had replaced the mechanic , so Karlheinz backed off a few paces with the camera . |
| 14 | To confirm her assertion that there are radicals and revolutionaries in every corner of contemporary social life who are campaigning to overthrow the ‘ traditional ’ moral order , Mrs Whitehouse reels off a formidable list of ‘ folk devils ’ . |
| 15 | Galerie St Etienne starts off the new year on a somewhat lugubrious note with a show called ‘ The Dance of Death : Images of Mortality in German Art ’ . |
| 16 | ENGLAND stars Jason Leonard ( left ) and Dewi Morris show off the new kit with David Pears ( middle ) in the away strip . |
| 17 | Finally , Rory turned off a minor road onto a rutted track between high , uncut hedges . |
| 18 | MIKE TOMCZAK , the Chicago Bears quarterback , threw for three touchdowns and Neal Anderson rushed for another as Chicago staved off a fourth-quarter rally by the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday night to win 27-13 . |
| 19 | Tynedale pulled off a marvellous 2–1 win against Tynemouth , while Billingham ended a successful season by beating Morpeth 2–0 with well taken goals by Nigel Skerritt and Tim Johnson . |
| 20 | Part road movie , part love story and part social commentary , Autobus pulls off the difficult trick of making a simple tale resonate with complex themes and emotions |
| 21 | FIRST excitement came when Paul Prentice brought off a superb save from Newry 's Nigel Rees . |
| 22 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 23 | TRAINER John Gosden walked off a heavy lunch in Sussex yesterday and plotted a tasty treble at Goodwood . |
| 24 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 25 | Shearer demonstrating just why he is the most complete striker in the game today , was always at the heart of Blackburn 's best moves , and in the 55th minute he instigated an attack which culminated in Mike Hooper pulling off a desperate save to keep out a Gordon Cowans drive . |
| 26 | Wolfgang and Constanze stayed three months , returning to Vienna in the autumn via Linz , where Mozart dashed off a new symphony ( K.425 in C , since known as the ‘ Linz ’ ) in record time for concert there . |
| 27 | LYNDA Ramsden pulled off a tremendous training performance when saddling High Premium to win the William Hill Lincoln , and Will of Steel to finish third , at Doncaster today . |
| 28 | Willie pulled off the weighted shoes and stood in the dark hallway shivering helplessly , his teeth rattling inside his clamped jaw . |
| 29 | Mark Laughlin rounded off a memorable 24 hours for the Edinburgh side by scoring the winner in the 49th minute . |
| 30 | Second half goals from Dmitry Radchenko and Andrei Piatnitski rounded off a comfortable Spartak Moscow performance to deny the Reds a place in the Cup Winners ' Cup quarter-final . |