Example sentences of "off with the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 2 | Start off with the highest SPF cream and only change gradually to a lower rating . |
| 3 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 4 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 5 | Finish off with the long , stroking movements with which you began in Step 1 . |
| 6 | this is a clean and neat move , nicely capped off with the gentle finish to the summit . |
| 7 | Sure , my partner had taken off with the two-headed bankroll . |
| 8 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 9 | Mike Tunnell walked off with the prized possession of a wooden spoon . |
| 10 | Starting off with the good Presbyterian family of Mr Moffatt at the corner — one of his daughters , Mrs Victoria Mullen , married a Methodist — there followed in order Englands , Magowans , Lyttles , Bells , McClatcheys , Lambs , Ramseys and Pattons . |
| 11 | Two years later , his dedication to keeping the show on the road has paid off with the new £8 million film The Muppet Christmas Carol , which opens in Britain this week starring Michael Caine as Scrooge . |
| 12 | DeFreitas and Malcolm finished Pakistan off with the new ball , Botham bagging his 120th catch and spoiling his chance to go ahead of Cowdrey when Waqar ( 0 ) edged Lewis . |
| 13 | February is Pocket Books ' launch month and , although not the biggest Giant of the Month , it kicks off with the new Virginia Andrews ™ , Dawn . |
| 14 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 15 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 16 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 17 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 18 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 19 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 20 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 21 | Then , not daring to glance round to see whether the cows were coming after her , she put one foot on the pedal , pushed off with the other , and began to ride away . |
| 22 | As she moved off with the other mounted followers , Artemis determined that if her father thought it was time for her to stop riding ponies and learn to hunt on a horse , then so be it . |
| 23 | On Chuck 's order , the makeshift stretcher party set off with the two youngsters leading the way , Jim supporting the quietly sobbing Louise and lighting the way for those behind . |
| 24 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 25 | Fill in the coupon on this page and send it off with the appropriate cheque |
| 26 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 27 | He dozed off with the familiar , soothing noise of Firelight 's hay-chomping over his head . |
| 28 | The process is slowed down by the young females ' strong attachments to their mothers some of whom may occasionally defect and move off with the young males too . |
| 29 | We start off with the front cover sheet . |
| 30 | Later , as Mr Bagley , at 21 thought to be the youngest scheduled service pilot in the country , prepared finally to take off with the delayed passengers , he was playing down the incident . |