Example sentences of "[verb] off [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to be said that when Dustin has co-starred in a movie with as big a star as he — McQueen , Redford , Beatty or Connery — he has come off second best . |
| 2 | NME was tipped off last week that REM were planning to play an unannounced set with Buck and subsequent reports led to a rush for tickets , described by one insider as ‘ absolutely frantic . ’ |
| 3 | BREATHLESS PC Les Pounder was always going to come off second best when he set off in pursuit of a pub fight suspect . |
| 4 | Crash is perhaps the operative word , for it is in the realms of physical engagement that the Scots — who won the Dubai tournament — look likely to come off second best . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've told my promoter Barry Hearn that I want it to come off next September and I want it to be outdoors . |
| 6 | To improve condition , try the Ultimate Nail Mask by Elegant Touch , which contains protein , calcium and vitamin E. Apply at night before bed and peel off next morning . |
| 7 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 8 | Mr Sangster , who tees off first at 8am today in a pro-am golf tournmament in Jersey , is hoping to arrive at Newbury about half-an-hour before the Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 9 | SUDBURY Wanderers ' promotion hopes received a set back last night when they came off second best in a seven goal thriller at Hadleigh . |
| 10 | In the City , numerous roads around the blast site at St Mary Axe remained cordoned off last night . |
| 11 | DEC AND THE MUSEE D'ORSAY IN PARIS SHOW OFF FIRST FRUITS OF THEIR COLLABORATION — BUT WHERE TO NOW ? |
| 12 | Asif and Trevor Penney , the newly-qualified Zimbabwean , will be competing for a middle-order place , though the first chance is likely to go to Paul Smith if he has shaken off last year 's injury troubles . |
| 13 | They finished the session , stripped the gearbox and found a tooth had broken off second gear . |
| 14 | Do you realise how many brain cells you probably managed to kill off last night ? ’ |
| 15 | In the recession that followed , output fell steeply , levelling off last Summer . |
| 16 | We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month . |
| 17 | Phase one of the 2,200-acre project kicks off next year and they 're looking for takers . |
| 18 | THE THIRD ICA Rox Week at The ICA in London 's Mall kicks off next month with The Boo Radleys and The Transmitters on December 3 , The Real People and Swirl 4 , Whycliffe and If 5 , Fatima Mansions and Milk 6 and Echo And The bunnymen 7 and 8 , support to be confirmed . |
| 19 | THE THIRD ICA Rox Week at The ICA in London 's Mall kicks off next month with The Boo Radleys and The Transmitters on December 3 , The Real People and Swirl 4 , Whycliffe and If 5 , Fatima Mansions and Milk 6 and Echo And The bunnymen 7 and 8 , support to be confirmed . |
| 20 | THE Smirnoff Irish League championship kicks off next Saturday with champions Linfield facing a tricky start away to Ards . |
| 21 | STEVEN SMITH 'S perseverance with the brilliant but wayward Brook Street Picnic paid off last night at the Horse of the Year Show , when he won the £4,000 first prize for the Leading Show Jumper of the Year title . |
| 22 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 23 | THE final £5bn tranche of the Government 's BT holding will be sold off next year for certain . |
| 24 | Philip Turner was taken to the Radcliffe Infirmary in the city after his nose was , was bitten off last night . |
| 25 | Last week AWSD let out that it had clasped hands with IBM 's once-proud flagship , its now-sullied mainframe operation Enterprise Systems , in setting up a co-funded unit to develop scalable mainframe-class multiprocessor RS/6000 RISC-based machines such as the SP1 Power Parallel system showed off last Tuesday . |
| 26 | Among half a dozen debt restructurings called off last year were those of Southland and Insilco . |
| 27 | As the hunt was called off last night detectives dismissed earlier claims the men could have been terrorists . |
| 28 | JIM BROWN , chairman of Third Division Halifax , has called off next month 's crisis meeting , lifting the threat of immediate closure . |
| 29 | Soon my knees will bleed , if my hand does not drop off first . ’ |
| 30 | Get off first thing in the morning . ’ |