Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 2 | Spitting and spluttering , forcing his flailing hands and knees to get a grip on the earth and push him back upright , he heard the rushing creak of the rickshaw 's wheels and the patter of feet as the haulier sped off into the night . |
| 3 | ‘ That was the first stripping off of the so-called glamour that women of my age tend to cling to , not just actresses ’ . |
| 4 | Cornelius put his arm around his friend 's shoulder and the two gazed off towards the lands of the east , wondering once more what the fates held in store for them . |
| 5 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 6 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 7 | We were being given a marvellous send off by the people there but I was not too sure about the starting pistol that George McGuire was wielding though , maybe I would be put out of my misery sooner than I thought ! |
| 8 | Visitor numbers at the museum also saw a sharp falling off under the Fuchs administration : of the 200,000 expected in 1991 , only 124,000 materialised . |
| 9 | And after two or three years of ‘ what seemed like free fall ’ in the early 80s , there has been a significant levelling off in the sales graph and the cost base has been radically improved . |
| 10 | To celebrate the occasion , they were given an emotional send off by the bus drivers who 've spent the last three years transporting them to and from home . |