Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] off " in BNC.

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1 Cut it off right , cut more of the bottom off and leave the tape there .
2 He turned the engine of the lawnmower off and waved back .
3 Rivals are apparently grateful , hopeful marriage and a family will take some of the edge off of Gates ' competitiveness .
4 Anyway , when father comes back I 'm taking the rest of the day off . ’
5 It was 9.45 before the last person was reunited with their property and it was rumoured that Mr Wilson took the rest of the day off to recover !
6 If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings .
7 Afterwards , the Abbott asked Father Francis if he would grant the boys the rest of the day off .
8 When the parade finally came to an end , Sergeant-Major Philpott congratulated them all and before dismissing the parade told the troops they could take the rest of the day off , but they must return to barracks and be tucked up in bed before midnight .
9 And for supporters of more ambitious clubs , there is the long , slow death of Championship dreams , where hope is extinguished little by little , week by week , until one cold wet January afternoon , you 're 1–0 down at home to Southampton , and you write the rest of the year off and start looking forward to August again .
10 ‘ That turns the first part of the system off , ’ she explained .
11 The day that made the appointment to see and Co , Nick after coming out of that meeting with Nick , we called in at the office , myself and my wife , and whilst I was tidying some things up because I 'd got the remainder of the afternoon off , Charles ' wife said to my wife , my wife actually broke down in tears , and she says , What 's up ?
12 Find out about er you know , if that is going through we 're gon na have to start flogging some of the stuff off to get some money back then .
13 Have you got to peel some of the stuff off ?
14 But after a while he soon knew large chunks of the play off by heart and could occasionally prompt without looking at the book .
15 So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat !
16 ‘ It will keep the worst of the weather off . ’
17 ( 21/11/92 ) : Four mad men stood in the cold rain taking some of the roof off !
18 And it ripped about a quarter of the roof off before it finished and the slates but er still good .
19 The ONLY time you want to take the weight off is at the end of the casting off .
20 When you 've got enough boss imposed interruptions on the sheet , you know , twelve to fifteen , take the rest of the week off .
21 It wrote the front of the car off .
22 We 've taken we 've taken er some of the workload off .
23 We might pay some of the mortgage off and er er , if there 's any you know , we sort of keep some in there .
24 Answer : Take the lights , bumpers … and part of the exhaust off .
25 TO speed up carving , cut one side of the breast off and slice it up beforehand .
26 I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border .
27 In the UK , in recent years the funding of government spending by increasing the money supply has been seen as detrimental , while funding it by borrowing has also been seen as objectionable because of the choking off of private investment .
28 But at a distance , and with some of the pressure off , Coleman began to wonder how much difference it would make if he did .
29 Well I 'm thinking of having them just take some of the pressure off .
30 Also , because of the slackening off of growth at ICL Technology in the second half , more attention than expected had to be devoted to its activities .
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