Example sentences of "carry off [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better carry off an embarrassing situation with as much panache as she could muster . |
| 2 | He helps his twin brother to carry off a young peasant girl from among his tenantry , her husband having first been killed by being deliberately overworked in unhealthy conditions . |
| 3 | As for clothes , fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label . |
| 4 | As a point of reference it will be assumed that for a supernova collapse the gravitational waves carry off a total energy of in a burst of milliseconds length and at a frequency of about I kHz . |
| 5 | In London the winners held their celebration dinner at the Hotel Great Central , Marylebone , where Chapman praised the Town for carrying off a major prize while still relatively young ( the club was founded in 1908 ) . |
| 6 | In 1063 the Pisans made a lightning raid on Palermo , destroyed some ships and carried off a handsome booty . |