Example sentences of "and off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A particular variant of special deposits , used on and off during the 1970s , was supplementary special deposits ( ‘ the corset ’ ) . |
| 2 | ‘ All that Wordsworthian waffle , and then when you meet the people all they want to do is hop on the bus and off to the nearest bright lights . ’ |
| 3 | Four steps backwards — another curtsey and off to the other side where officials put the medal in a box and took back the hook ! |
| 4 | With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution . |
| 5 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 9 | I was worried sick when I saw it , and I 've been ringing your number on and off for the past hour . |
| 10 | Firstly , I have been buying this magazine on and off since the first time that Elite ( by Firebird ) was reviewed . |
| 11 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 12 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 13 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 14 | She switches them on and off like the electric light . ’ |