Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER Kennedy 's tongue-in-cheek shot at his latest creation , ‘ The Widow or Bust ’ , has come off with a bang at the Arts Theatre this week . |
| 2 | He banged his hat on and stumped off through the courtyard , muttering , ‘ I 'll give her testify … ’ |
| 3 | So our hero stumped off down the yard and came across 4913 . |
| 4 | In the ensuing raid by our officers , who had been tipped off about the smuggling run , a pitched battle between our men and the smugglers had led to several amusing incidents , related to us by local officers . |
| 5 | The wife of the chief coiner however , being tipped off about the search had the stack of coins , the moulds and other equipment thrown into Rusland Pool . " |
| 6 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |
| 7 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 8 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 9 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 10 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 11 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 12 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 13 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 14 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 15 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 16 | On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it . |
| 17 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 18 | The previous year to my visit a sizeable chunk had cracked off in a storm . |
| 19 | Despite this , many pet cats are carried off to the vet by exasperated owners for this type of ‘ convenience surgery ’ . |
| 20 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 21 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 22 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 23 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 24 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 25 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 26 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 27 | Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher . |
| 28 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg . |
| 29 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 30 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |