Example sentences of "[was/were] [to-vb] off [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	If you were to strip off the face , like a rubber mask , what would be underneath ?
2	‘ It might help if you were to call off the androids , ’ he said , exasperatedly .
3	Still , the only other option was to disappear off the face of the earth , and that could involve leaving London .
4	We were told that that is impossible to take a vote because with big organisations like B T and the Post Office one example was to sell off a Girobank there are eight thousand people , but they were just told you can either defer your pension , leave it with the Post Office Pension Fund , transfer it to the Leicester and Alliance who bought Girobank , or take your money out and take up a personal pension scheme .
5	The final procedure was to split off the component from the scrap and clean up .
6	The trick was to turn off the instant you stepped on to the catwalk .
7	All that such devices could ever hope to do was to stave off the exercise of French sovereignty .
8	Neither Mr nor Mrs Kewish had any idea what was in Blea Moor Tunnel but they were both very frightened , their one desire was to get off the train as quickly as possible !
9	His principal endeavour was to stay off the subject of Islam except when alone with the children .
10	Technically , Sami was a confidential informant ( CI ) for Michael Pavlick , the DEA 's country attaché in Paris , but he was to play a vital part in Operation Goldenrod , a project preoccupying the NARCOG task force in Nicosia when Coleman arrived there , and which was to touch off the chain reaction of events that exploded over Lockerbie 21 months later .
11	The hole became a jointly waged battle and three times Fred Peasley 's ball was to blow off the green .
12	He arrived back at his parents ' home in Bures St Mary near Sudbury , Suffolk , yesterday where his first task was to wash off the grime of Patagonia , much of it volcanic dust .

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