Example sentences of "[vb pp] off on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've ever bought a leather product with gold writing on it saying ‘ real leather ’ or ‘ a present from Bognor ’ , and the writing has come off on your fingers it 's been done by ‘ cold foil ’ printing . |
| 2 | The printing is so poor I kept checking to see if the ink had come off on my clothes and the editors should have picked up errors like the attribution to Mary Cassatt of a mother and child by Berthe Morisot . |
| 3 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 4 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 5 | ‘ On Saturday the 14th , I was carried off on my reserve team debut at Arsenal with ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments . |
| 6 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 7 | Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher . |
| 8 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg . |
| 9 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 10 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |
| 11 | The leadership we 've had from the trade union movement over the last fourteen years , we 've been picked off on everything . |
| 12 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 13 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 14 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 15 | He disclosed that electricity supplies to the compound had been turned off on Friday . |
| 16 | He wondered how much Lorton 's mate had creamed off on top of his percentage . |
| 17 | David Linacre had dozed off on the sofa one evening when his daughter Heidi came in and asked who was in the shower . |
| 18 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 19 | Car No. 396 was destroyed by a bomb outside Croydon bus garage on 10 May 1941 and its remains dumped in Purley depot , to be officially written off on 30 November 1945 . |
| 20 | The edges of the solid alder body are smoothly rounded at the front but squared off on the back , with no comfy contouring . |
| 21 | Upon seeing it — some said a question mark had fallen off on its way to printing in North Wales — she sat down and wept . |
| 22 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 23 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 24 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 25 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 26 | Rolls are normally 100 metres and , if in this length the coating blotches , or a ‘ squeegee ’ effect appears in the dyed colour , or perhaps the ‘ picks ’ form lumpy doubled threads in the weft , then the run has to be sold off on a shorter roll . |
| 27 | As one of the final stages in the government 's privatization programme , three major state-owned steel companies were sold off on Nov. 20 for a total price of $885,000,000 . |
| 28 | that was closed off on er |
| 29 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 30 | ‘ We seem to have got off on a wrong footing tonight , Mr Calder , ’ she said carefully . |