Example sentences of "on and off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TALKS ‘ ON AND OFF FOR A YEAR ’ , SAYS KAVNER |
| 2 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 3 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 4 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 5 | It is unique in that juniors come first , are welcomed at all times in and out of the club house , on and off of the courts and will never be turned off the courts by seniors . |
| 6 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 7 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 8 | The electricity industry has an extra desire : to switch consumers ' equipment on and off from a central point . |
| 9 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't just switch your emotions on and off like a light-switch . ’ |