Example sentences of "off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Smith and two other Dunstable players were sent off during the match , the rest of the team left the field . |
| 2 | THE West Country has seen some notable eccentric squires , such as the squire of Selworthy who took a fly-fishing rod to church so he could wake anyone nodding off during the sermon with a smart crack on the head with a lead sinker . |
| 3 | Roberto Policano , sent off during the away leg , is suspended but Torino have hit a patch of impressive form which has consolidated their fourth place in the fiercely-competitive Italian league . |
| 4 | WHAT is the protocol at a smart lunch when one 's neighbour drops off during the speeches ? |
| 5 | That was the first of several epic desert walks carried out by both groups and individuals from the SAS who had become cut off during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 6 | That did n't half pay off during the Open . |
| 7 | But it does lend itself to careful analysis and preparation which may well pay off during the actual bargaining . |
| 8 | All his favourite soloists appeared , many fronting his best troupes ; Amy Knott with the Forget-me-nots , Bessie as usual with the Troubadours and Maggie Rimmer and the new Rainbow troupe who slipped off during the run to do a couple of weeks at the London Pavilion and the Oxford , then returned to complete the season . |
| 9 | The moisture in the gel will be given off during the day and reabsorbed at night . |
| 10 | Should the ensuing insomnia mean dropping off during the day , then again you will be awakened , this time by real Hercules transport planes — Elveden Forest , being in East Anglia , is very close to numerous air-bases and so many jets scream overhead that one expects any minute to bump into a tight-lipped Kate Adie dressed in camouflage fatigues . |
| 11 | Now is the time to make a clean sweep of all the jobs you put off during the bad weather . |
| 12 | Fire crackers are let off during the day . |
| 13 | The advantage of this is that the secretaries can be laid off during the summer recess , and MPs can avoid the cost of employing them from the ‘ expenses ’ allowance . |
| 14 | These are also concentrated in Kent with 65 per cent of the total ( 25 per cent at Faversham alone ) , and there is little change in this pattern through time except that the total quantities fall off during the seventh century . |
| 15 | Audience figures fell off during the weaker second series ( 21 episodes ) , but TV had already received its enema , and things would never be the same again . |
| 16 | Tora ! filming was not a happy one , as the film crew obliterated the old paint on the airframe and ground-looped a gear leg off during the filming . |
| 17 | Some of the scenes , such as the ‘ fly-by-wire ’ shots of an Allison-powered unmanned replica P–40 attempting to take off during the attack , did not go as planned but actually turned out better . |
| 18 | It is a kind of mystery tour , with an unimaginable destination ; not surprisingly many pupils fall asleep or jump off during the journey . |
| 19 | The flight originated at Navy Dallas , Grand Prairie , Texas , for an IFR cross-country flight to Washington , D.C. The flight crew could not rotate the aircraft for lift off during the takeoff roll on Runway 17 , 8,000 feet in length . |
| 20 | Erm , you know , maybe it 's something we can do in just a one off during the winter |
| 21 | They used to put the cloth on for the winter and take it off during the summer . |
| 22 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 23 | These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 24 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 25 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 26 | This makes it a little less likely that mud , attached to the log , will wash off during the journey . |
| 27 | The new governments all moved swiftly to restore relations with Israel which they had all , with the exception of Romania , broken off during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war [ see p. 22105 ] . |
| 28 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 29 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 30 | A particular variant of special deposits , used on and off during the 1970s , was supplementary special deposits ( ‘ the corset ’ ) . |