Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 2 | When the event resumed in September 1989 it was expected to finish off the closing submissions which had already started and then gently fade away into history . |
| 3 | The Star takes a similar line : Smith ‘ tore up the party 's election manifesto ’ , but ‘ he was set to touch off a left-wing backlash by hijacking Tory policies . ’ |
| 4 | The UN was forced to call off an attempt to evacuate Muslims from Srebrenica by helicopter on Wednesday after Serb artillery shelled the landing zone . |
| 5 | IN the first few minutes Armagh could have opened the scoring when Eugene Mullan was forced to pull off a string of good saves . |
| 6 | Walsh kept him company for 45 minutes for 27 runs , Patterson for an hour for a partnership of 62 until the second new ball was required to finish off the number eleven . |