Example sentences of "off with [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR children may be pestering you to give them a games system for Christmas but you may be better off with a real computer instead . |
| 2 | he was going round going oh my God I got off with a real dog . |
| 3 | You sit there in the head man 's office , you wave your hands about , your voice goes up and down , you raise your eyebrows and round it off with a quizzical smile and a subtle twist of the head . |
| 4 | Remember that season was started off with a freak result vs Newcastle . |
| 5 | The conference kicked off with a swingeing attack on local government reform by Arthur Midwinter , professor of politics at Strathclyde University . |
| 6 | The programme is rounded off with a two-day visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair . |
| 7 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 8 | If the Manic Street Preachers are so Jonathan-Kinging radical why do n't they go round Channel 4 and kick Terry Christian 's smug , ugly , homophobic face in and then cut Amanda De Torybimbo 's Barbie-doll head off with a rusty cake slice ? |
| 9 | The easiest cure is to knock the snow off with a regular tap with the axe shaft . |
| 10 | Jamie Chung finished off with a spectacular goal , turning on a cross from Seymour to hit a venomous shot into the roof of the net . |
| 11 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 12 | He 'd often do that , ’ she added defensively , ‘ go off with a great pile of scripts , looking for his next show . |
| 13 | Our first day on Martinque was rounded off with a great beach party with music provided by a local band . |
| 14 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 15 | Later , he delivered the first of his high-tech rallies with a punchy speech and the evening was rounded off with a five-point lead in an opinion poll . |
| 16 | The water-based ones are quite easy to apply and dry quickly but they often look patchy afterwards unless you finish off with a water-based varnish instead of the usual oil-based polyurethane . |
| 17 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 18 | Press well down , finishing off with a small trowel |
| 19 | She was referred to the town 's main fire station where he met sub-officer John Yoxall and had the bracket cut off with a small hacksaw . |
| 20 | She was close to her home in Iona street when the man threatened her with a handgun , and then made off with a small sum of money . |
| 21 | We know from Gen Shandruk 's memoirs that on 10 May , the day after the division had been recorded by 6 Armoured Division as having surrendered near Volkermarkt , the two generals , Shandruk and Freytag , set off with a small group to reach the US Zone , leaving behind some 10,000 men under Col Krat . |
| 22 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 23 | The Kirk Hammett model ( let's just call it the KH ) is a medium to heavyweight guitar with an alder body , a good straight-grained maple neck and a rosewood fingerboard , all topped off with a reverse headstock , two humbuckers , and the obligatory Floyd Rose with locking nut . |
| 24 | He hooks his leg forward and sweeps his opponent to the ground , finishing him off with a reverse punch to the head . |
| 25 | As well as Hitchcock and Flynn , Mark Gill weighed in with two and Tim McCann rounded things off with a glorious strike minutes from the end . |
| 26 | Started off with a thousand pound , two thousand pound . |
| 27 | E he just pushed it off with a long thing like that and and on they went and did it . |
| 28 | If red meat is really what you want , you would be even better off with a well-trimmed steak . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Out-gunned 11 caps to three , Tigers ended a run of defeats in this annual frolic with a five-try triumph , topped off with a typical Baa-Baas ' style try , started in front of their own posts and finished by Tony Underwood behind the posts at the other end . |