Example sentences of "off [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take off cabinet doors : leave them off altogether for an open shelved look ; replace them with new louvred or wooden doors with beading ; replace them with glazed doors , or hang curtains in front of shelves instead ( PVC fabric curtains wo n't pick up dirt so easily but cotton is cheaper and easier to wash ) . |
| 2 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 3 | More positively , both the BFASS and most of its critics in England and Scotland , though not some of the more circumspect Scots abolitionists , sounded off powerfully against the Free Church 's financial reliance on southern slaveholders after its break from the Church of Scotland in 1843 . |
| 4 | Lord Hesketh , the chief whip in the Lords , also went for flower power in the form of a pink carnation set off nicely by a red bow tie and cream shirt . |
| 5 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 6 | Well , if you want the truth , I was n't certain we would hit it off together on a regular basis . ’ |
| 7 | Narrow french , or mock french , seams should be used , or a narrow plain seam with the seam allowances finished off together with a zig-zag stitch . |
| 8 | They all moved off together down the tawny dust of the road , close beside the shingle banks and black deeps of the river . |
| 9 | Mark turned , just as the dogs took off together in a huge leap which struck him in the chest , knocking him backwards into the boot where he sat , legs dangling , with both arms wrapped around the excited dogs . |
| 10 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 11 | I had an image of them having it off together in the same building where I was . |
| 12 | In his lunch breaks Doisneau pored over books on photography , and at weekends he set off alone with a heavy wooden camera and tripod to capture the first of the ‘ personal ’ photographs that would be the basis of his life 's work . |
| 13 | A boy who used to wander off alone into the tall trees which threatened the village and , as though in insolent reminder of their dominance , sent long poking fingers of animated shrub foraging between the dumpy houses , the stone chapel and the corrugated band hot . |
| 14 | The picture on the last page shows the father walking off alone along the darkening street , leaving the brightly lit house behind him . |
| 15 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 16 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 17 | ‘ If the pelargoniums were overwintered in their old containers then it is best to remove them , shake off much of the old potting compost from the roots and repot in fresh compost — moderately heavy , with good drainage but not more than one-quarter peat or other organic matter . |
| 18 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 19 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 20 | The Liberal Democrats ' campaign for the Richmond seat will kick off tonight with the formal adoption of candidate George Irwin in Northallerton Town Hall at 7.30pm . |
| 21 | And , having held off longer in the vain hope that the negative economic signals would prove false , IBM 's European and Japanese customers will be obligated to make more drastic cutbacks in mainframe expenditures than will their American counterparts . |
| 22 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
| 23 | The 16th anniversary of Land Day ( March 30 ) , however , passed off peacefully in the occupied territories . |
| 24 | Both these beautiful fish have a deep body , smoothly tapering to a pointed , central mouth at the front ( nothing new in that arrangement ! ) , and with the back end almost cut off vertically from the two divisions of the dorsal and anal fins . |
| 25 | Thus the church and its site were purchased for £20,000 in 1979 by Waverly District Council , while the adjacent church hall was sold off separately by the local diocese for conversion into two small private dwellings . |
| 26 | Many of the living echinoids are protected by spines , some sharp and breaking off easily into the unwary foot , others stout and clublike ; a few groups have taken to burrowing into sediment , and the spines have become small and felt-like . |
| 27 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 28 | He was due to go in June but brought forward the date to join Adidas , which was finally sold off yesterday by the controversial French tycoon Bernard Tapie to a group of international investors for $371 million . |
| 29 | These start off usually with a thin , gentle slithering sound of sliding boulders on the scree slope , which abruptly gives way to a much louder , roaring collapse as the main mass of rock falls away and hurtles downhill , and then afterwards minor falls continue intermittently for long periods . |
| 30 | It all looked so carefree , so enticingly Mediterranean and relaxed , that Caroline suddenly longed to be able to forget her business , abandon all her years of hard work , hop on board one of those yachts and sail off indefinitely towards the hazy blue horizon … |