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

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1 The photo at the bottom of the page shows a player teeing off in a left-to-right crosswind .
2 They do not usually break out suddenly from their traditional framework and veer off in a new direction .
3 I lapsed into a semi-coma , only vaguely conscious that we came round again to the familiar spot and waited , then headed off in a new direction .
4 Marshall set off in a new direction .
5 The outer regions of the star may sometimes get blown off in a tremendous explosion called a supernova , which would outshine all the other stars in its galaxy .
6 The metal yields easily at first , hardens somewhat and then breaks off in a brittle fashion .
7 Sickened by the sterile goals of the middle-class life into which they were born , they gave up everything and took off in a mobile home , fighting to be entitled to educate their two sons themselves .
8 And if anyone had noticed , maybe I could have just tossed the whole matter off in a casual way : ‘ Oh , that … it 's nothing much … ’
9 Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced .
10 One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation .
11 Roy sent off in a blazing helicopter
12 A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away .
13 Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser .
14 The other frustration of watching on TV is hearing the low rumble of chatter , unexplained laughter , heckles and shouts , like the noises off in a Russian drama , but being unable to see the source .
15 The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van .
16 Below : to take off in a camper van ( see page 70 ) , find the words in this grid — and do n't forget the competition entry token
17 He found that a poor Tambov peasant who harvested 35 pudy of grain from one desiatin of land had to pay 15 pudy of it for the hire of a plough , 7 pudy for having the grain carted off in a richer man 's wagon , and to top it all 7 pudy in tax .
18 She received the watch and chain from the pawnbroker 's daughter , together with the new pawn ticket and fivepence , and went off in a pleasured state over the transaction , although a little worried that Queen Mary might find out that her naughty niece wanted to show her legs riding bareback on a circus horse .
19 The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined .
20 Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms .
21 Eventually it was just a dark dot way up in the shy , almost unrecognisable except for the distinctive flight pattern : it would glide round in a circle , then soar off in a straight line , helped along by the wind , and finally resume its circular flight again .
22 Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display .
23 Shoving us off in a lucid surge
24 The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies .
25 They clambered down the cliff-path from Sea House and set off in a western direction along the beach to Badstoneleigh .
26 Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business .
27 The Marines had sent her off in a small wooden-bedded truck that seemed to have no springs or shock-absorbers whatsoever .
28 Basinger evaded reporters and cameramen as she left the courthouse Wednesday , leaving by a sidedoor and rushing off in a black sedan .
29 The acceleration is sensational and very similar to taking off in a piston-engined aircraft with open cockpit .
30 His footballing skills were obviously allied to a questionable temperament , and in January 1985 Frank McAvennie lived up to his immense promise , becoming the first Scottish footballer to be sent off in a Premier league match for giving a ‘ V ’ sign to the opposing fans .
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