Example sentences of "have [verb] off with [art] " 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 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 3 | ‘ You will wake Widow MacIntosh — ‘ She is not here , you fool — she has gone off with the mob . ’ |
| 4 | Fear of doors , entrances , gates etc. often occurs when a horse has been ( unwisely ) tied to a gate and has gone off with the gate ! ! |
| 5 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |
| 6 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 7 | Recent investment in manufacturing capacity and quality systems has paid off with an increased share in the markets for sputtering targets , metal seal lids for semiconductor packages and fabricated metal products for electronic applications . |
| 8 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
| 9 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
| 10 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
| 11 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 12 | Queen Mary had such an eye for antiques , you see , if she 'd seen them , she 'd have gone off with the lot . |
| 13 | The Indians had taken the radio telephones ( they 'd have gone off with the genny if they 'd had a crane ) and Caracas thought they 'd just broken down again so came as per normal . |
| 14 | The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor . |
| 15 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 16 | And a foul by Whitlow on Rozario and pain written all over Robert Rozario 's face and we saw that the last time we had a Nottingham Forest live game when he collided with a post up at Bolton Wanderers and had to go off with a rib and facial injuries . |
| 17 | About eleven I noticed that Nigel had dozed off with a smile still on his face . |
| 18 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 19 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 20 | The ‘ pomps who were n't dead had gone off with the preacherman . |
| 21 | Thus , when Remedios the Beauty disappears , the narrative records the fact that outsiders were of the opinion that she had run off with a man and that the story of her ascent into heaven was an invention of her family to cover up the scandal . |
| 22 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 23 | We had tea and discussed everything except the two things that interested me : the fact that I was in love with her daughter , and the fact that her husband had run off with a schoolgirl . |
| 24 | She had confided this to Liz in a tearful moment , not long after Jonathan had run off with the Williams girl . |
| 25 | It was so obvious that he would n't have cared in the slightest if she really had run off with the professor . |
| 26 | Their father was a builder and their mother had run off with an Irish bricklayer . |
| 27 | When Marjorie was a year old , her mother had run off with an Armenian . |
| 28 | Er so we 've started off with a number of relatively nitpicking erm erm points . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So if we only had started off with a half of it |