Example sentences of "and [vb -s] off [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know they can be affected by wind and frost and it turns the leaves brown and kills off the buds , but why is only one affected ? |
| 2 | Using this phenomenon I evolved a design that appeals to my sense of aesthetics , based on simple sections of a hollow sphere , and shows off the grain of the wood to best advantage . |
| 3 | he said that will all look bad on him he said if he sold it and er do n't I , he , he said he 's got two choices , he either sells that car and pays off the loan in both your names or he , he sells that car and gives you half |
| 4 | Some of these might , I am sure , change their opinion as Wheen fills in the gaps and rounds off an account of a long career that began in 1920s aesthetic Oxford and finished in a heart attack in a London taxi almost 50 years later . |
| 5 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |
| 6 | She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
| 7 | But she sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household , family and friends . |
| 8 | As we tumbled into the ditch again , half the contents of his magazine went overhead , knocking paint , rust , and sparks off the gate of the house behind . |
| 9 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 10 | One story is set at a computer show in Birmingham : a company representative visits the stand of a software firm , borrows its latest product , and runs off a copy in five minutes back at his own stand . |