Example sentences of "off for [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials .
2 Then Gannon struck in the 81st minute and added the third with a penalty after Exeter 's Kevin Miller was sent off for a second bookable offence in the 89th minute .
3 Alan McDonald was sent off for a second bookable offence as Queens Park Rangers lost 2–1 to Tottenham .
4 Apollon did n't help their cause when they had Marios Charalambous sent off for a second bookable offence a minute before the break .
5 Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie .
6 Middlesbrough fans feared the worst when central defender Nicky Mohan was sent off for a second bookable offence .
7 Wrappers off for a super festive show
8 I had thrown away my chances in life , pawned them off for a few cheap thrills .
9 their , their supply routes are n't as well defined as ours , but they 've got shear weight of numbers , see , I 'm af , I 'm afraid , I could be a fucking karate black belt or something right , so one on one against you I would n't have a problem , but if you went and got fucking thirty of your mates I would have a problem , I maybe able to hold you off for a fucking few minutes or something or if you could either contact , maybe a few months or years or something , but they will win
10 I am writing this quickly on my return ( Tuesday evening ) from London , prior to setting off for the European rural conference in Scotland .
11 I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe .
12 We can presume that the novelty of the Society had worn off for the capricious upper classes .
13 Clarke was the luckiest player on earth not to be sent off for the clearest professional foul imaginable on Strachan after 69 minutes .
14 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 .
15 Volkov had been written off for the last five years .
16 Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child .
17 East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw .
18 Having established himself at Ince , Killigrew set off for the busy mercantile town of Plymouth , where he soon fell in with a merchant , Tremayne , who had a daughter , Mary .
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