Example sentences of "off with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NIGEL MANSELL walked off with four awards at a lunch held by the British Racing Drivers ' Club yesterday . |
| 2 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 3 | IBM 'S POWER OPEN ASSOCIATION KICKS OFF WITH FIVE SPONSORS — MORE IN THE WINGS |
| 4 | If the witnesses are n't killed at the time , then they are often murdered at a later date , or frightened off with violent threats . |
| 5 | Five five twelfths cos we started off with six twelfths take one twelfth away start off with six pigs and take one pig away got five pigs . |
| 6 | You do n't usually go off with strange women like that . ’ |
| 7 | She also had the run of the library and she could of course go out , as long , he warned her with a sardonic look , as she did n't wander off with strange men . |
| 8 | Well I do n't ring up the client now , I make a note to ring them Monday night , because every approach session should always start off with warm calls , I do n't know if Alan told you that . |
| 9 | I do n't see how he should have got off with 7 years . |
| 10 | It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements — and perhaps unwise . |
| 11 | Some children may be better off with early cataracts than with aphakic eyes , so early surgery is not always advisable . |
| 12 | We appeared to have students of the same native wit coming to courses in the arts and the sciences and the technologies , and the technologies were requiring quite a lot of these colleges to kick off with unclassified degrees , and finally began to weaken a little , I think , when they found that business studies and art and design were doing no such thing . |
| 13 | Thoughtful people who are not able to buy the simplistic analysis are written off with contemptuous slogans like ‘ If you are n't part of the solution you are part of the problem ’ . |
| 14 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 15 | Deana , rather , was dressed down in old jeans and a slightly stained white blouse , finished off with worn thongs . |
| 16 | While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods . |
| 17 | The thieves removed part of the roof to get into the building , and made off with sixteen handguns . |
| 18 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 19 | When you finish testing , well , as you test you start off with simple numbers and you then start changing some of the numbers , to test other aspects , and eventually you 're happy that everything seems to be working alright . |
| 20 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 21 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 22 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 23 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 24 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 25 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 26 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 27 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 28 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 29 | The Open in those days was one round Wednesday , one round Thursday and then finishing off with two rounds — Friday . |
| 30 | The Corporal fired another burst and then he went off with two Commandos to find out the result . |