Example sentences of "off with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Those people who went along to hear you play ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ on the ‘ Weld ’ tour got a blast of Sonic Youth , liberal idealists were shocked by your Reagan-supporting stance in the mid-'80s , your newly-won reactionary followers were soundly ticked off with the capitalist lambasting of ‘ Freedom ’ at the close of the decade … |
| 32 | But alas , alack , someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following : a purple sunburst ESP Horizon 5-string bass in flightcase ; a 1982 Stratocaster in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock , also in a flightcase ; a sunburst Telecaster , also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case ; a 100-watt Marshall Hi-gain Dual Reverb head ; a Roland R-5 drum machine ; an Aztec wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic ; two bags — one ex-army , one sports bag — containing a large assortment of leads , strings , tuners , power supplies etc. , and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus , an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner . |
| 33 | It was a post for which he was singularly unsuited and from which he removed himself or was gently pushed in September 1939 , but , though he failed to hit it off with the central committee , he did bring to the organisation the stamp of institutional legitimacy . |
| 34 | After the arrival in France of the advance reconnaissance party on 6 June 1944 , Major Fraser had taken off with the main recce party on 10 June . |
| 35 | Club president Gordon Podmore successfully defended the sponsors trophy at Hill Valley Golf Club , Whitchurch , and the four-man team walked off with the main tournament by one Stableford point . |
| 36 | ‘ Breaks Bass & Bleeps ’ has also flown , head in clouds , into a fourth volume , kicking off with the furious and bass , how fast can u go ? |
| 37 | What we have here is the untarnished pop of Pet Shop Boys mixed with the stylish swish of Pixies and the expertise of REM all rounded off with the insane power of a contemporary Wagner . |
| 38 | Set off with the towing Julie 's car and the tow rope just snapped in two , and it jerked both cars and it cut off the fuel . |
| 39 | It was lads from Garforth who stole the 1829 pole , but a group from Aberford managed to make off with the top half in 1907 . |
| 40 | Well we can start off with the top one hundred companies and allocate them like that if you want , if it makes things easier rather |
| 41 | OFF WITH THE OLD |
| 42 | Perhaps she would have been better off with the old humbug after all . |
| 43 | Most of them are indeed trying to pull the ‘ off with the old , on with the new ’ wife replacement technique but they are in such an emotional mess that they subconsciously drive away any woman who tries to get close to them . |
| 44 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 45 | Off with the old and on with the new ! |
| 46 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 47 | It was looking just like a classic boring , musty , fusty Labour party Conference like all the others , and then it suddenly took off with the big OMOV debate and Smith 's cliffhanging win ’ . |
| 48 | It is possible to start off with the simplest possible system with a few reports and then add to it as new requirements are uncovered . |
| 49 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 50 | Dexter believed Jane Pargeter was more interested in David Parkin 's affair than she pretended : you ca n't be someone 's lover for three years and then cast them off with the same indifference as an old pair of socks . |
| 51 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 52 | We start off with the same two words every time . |
| 53 | It would not be past Zhukov 's greed and cunning to try and fob him off with the wrong pie e of film . |
| 54 | In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot . |
| 55 | The remains of her whiteface make-up came off with the clotted badges of blood . |
| 56 | We kick off with the British Killifish Association . |
| 57 | You 'd be better off with the English one . ’ |
| 58 | However , the performance of monocrystalline cells drops off with the longer wavelengths of light in this spectrum . |
| 59 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 60 | Noel has cleared off with the one-man tent . |