Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARILLION singer Steve Hogarth was left red-faced when a fan tried to rip his trousers off during a sell-out show . |
| 2 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 3 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 4 | The flight originated at Navy Dallas , Grand Prairie , Texas , for an IFR cross-country flight to Washington , D.C. The flight crew could not rotate the aircraft for lift off during the takeoff roll on Runway 17 , 8,000 feet in length . |
| 5 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 6 | It sprang down off her lap and prowled off through a flower bed . |
| 7 | She flew around , looking for Prince William , found him in the kitchen , grabbed his arm and ran off through a side door . |
| 8 | They wove off through the theatre crowd , bending and bowing together . |
| 9 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 10 | It all began in the early hours when it 's alleged the car failed to stop at a police check and sped off through the city centre and out along the Botley Road . |
| 11 | There only existed a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of increase in the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | In other words , a trade off of sorts does exist after all : it is a trade off between the unemployment rate and the rate of change of the actual and expected rates of inflation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is a free country and people are allowed to sound off about the fur trade , about vivisection , about experimenting with live animals . |
| 15 | Although it started off as a school project , the spider catcher has attracted alot of outside interest . |
| 16 | We 'd get to one poem four or five days into the war , or after The Belgrano or Sir Galahad , and then you have ‘ Lie Still ’ … which is sombre , like a tribute , and then the others , like ‘ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ’ , which started off as a camp throwaway as a tango ; but the poems put together with an orchestra gives them much more depth . ’ |
| 17 | One young man , who was attending a large machine which was railed off as a safety precaution , warned Humphrey of the dangers of moving machinery . |
| 18 | Susan , from West Derby , started off as a trainee beautician aged 17 at the Finishing Touches Salon in Castle Street . |
| 19 | In the late Sixties , Kasmin swallowed his pride and set off as a travelling salesman on behalf of the gallery to America , travelling the States with a bagful of transparencies , finding out who was interested in art from the local museums , and visiting people who did n't get to New York . |
| 20 | Would Britain be better off as a theme park ? |
| 21 | He started off as a counter clerk |
| 22 | I set off as a television test pilot and have ended up with my best-ever chance of winning the race . |
| 23 | Character statistics play very little part in the proceedings , which is unforgivable for a product passing itself off as a roleplaying game . |
| 24 | The better things presumed to be in store for Glasser when he went off as a scholarship boy to a glamorous university in the South of England are , in a sense , the subject of Gorbals Boy at Oxford , his second volume of autobiography . |
| 25 | After studying accountancy at Chicago University , he worked on and off as an investment analyst . |
| 26 | CHRIS BURTON , Featherstone 's former Great Britain forward , has been suspended for five matches by the Rugby League disciplinary committee after being sent off for a head tackle in Featherstone 's home championship defeat by Leeds last Sunday . |
| 27 | STEVE HAMPSON , the Wigan and Great Britain full-back , was suspended for 10 matches by the disciplinary committee yesterday after being sent off for a head tackle in Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final with at Leeds . |
| 28 | Celebrities strip off for a TV valentine |
| 29 | ‘ Apparently , Owen is intending to take Liz off for a weekend trip , all on their own , while the children are going to stay with a friend . |
| 30 | ‘ I hate my fat knees , ’ she said , and went off for a ten-mile hike . |