Example sentences of "off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere , transistors give off the Reggae beat , making the place a party that never stops , and that might catch fire . |
| 2 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 3 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 4 | I felt its coldness spreading through my body , killing off the cells , one by one . |
| 5 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 6 | By the time the boat reached the island Sven Hjerson had still not succeeded in shaking off the ample , daisy-sprinkled form of Arabella Buckley . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd pay off the school fees first if I were you . ’ |
| 8 | Wipe off the shading paint from the glass at the beginning of the month in Scotland and the north , and the end of the month in the south . |
| 9 | Dry off the beans |
| 10 | Blank off the last 500 feet on the altimeter and practise guessing heights below 600 feet . |
| 11 | in a garage , where exhaust fumes could set off the alarm . |
| 12 | She switched off the music . |
| 13 | Take off the coloured belt after you leave the area so that you wo n't have stewards chasing after you for it ! |
| 14 | Swivel on your supporting leg and bring your kicking knee full across your body where you can fend off the attacker , if necessary . |
| 15 | No need for a hat , but the hair must be pulled off the face to minimise distraction and caught at the nape in a black band into which she would stick a single green feather . |
| 16 | She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed . |
| 17 | A second nurse came into the lounge and switched off the news . |
| 18 | A nurse came into the room and switched off the news . |
| 19 | I switched off the light and closed the kitchen door quickly , thankful for the seal I had fixed under it . |
| 20 | Why , in other words , should perception be of the perceived object rather than any other object in the causal chain further back in the causal chain ; why every perception should not be of the Big Bang that started off the Universe . |
| 21 | The sit-ups start with the back off the board , and end before the upper body reaches the vertical position . |
| 22 | You can make an arrangement to pay off the bill and your current consumption , by regular payments to the fuel supplier . |
| 23 | Sally Greengross , Director of Age Concern England , has written to the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators urging that awards made by arbitrators should enable investors to escape their debt completely , ie to pay off the whole of their outstanding loan , which will otherwise ‘ roll up ’ on a daily basis , in some cases leading to repossession . |
| 24 | Canon Arbeau in his Orchésographie ( 1588 ) recommended the use of four positions from and through which the feet moved , the turn-out to show off the line of the leg and ports de bras to display one 's carriage and courteous behaviour . |
| 25 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 26 | The Second Fairy brings Grace and dances slightly faster in such a way that she shows off the lines of her body as it faces forwards and then backwards ( the traditional gesture ) . |
| 27 | Here in the front cloth she is seen at her embroidery , sadly waiting and earning her living to pay off the Rake 's debts . |
| 28 | Turn off the gas — good beer needs no blanket |
| 29 | He laughed , because I was still to get off the ground . |
| 30 | You turn off the road into a wooded parked area opposite the first house on the right after leaving the village . |