Example sentences of "off on [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 There is a note below these minutes which says , " The above entertainment came off on Friday 15th. but owing to the inclemency of the weather the audience was very small . "
2 But with all that enthusiasm you 'd think at least some of it would rub off on David 's employees ?
3 Even the loan of his father 's rod had n't helped him to catch anything , although his father had caught two trout whose scales came off on Stuart 's hands and gleamed silver in the soft light .
4 That instinctive understanding of her place in the showbusiness scheme of things was later to rub off on Kylie 's fellow Neighbours exile Jason Donovan , who was persuaded by his long time friend to abandon ideas of hardening up his dance music into something U2ish .
5 I worked on and off on Tremayne 's book for the rest of the morning but found it hard to concentrate .
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