Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 32 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 33 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 34 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 35 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 36 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 37 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 38 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 39 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 40 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 41 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 42 | Dispatch contains the sense of ’ , ‘ to get on with something ’ , haste , and also ‘ to do away with ’ , to polish off , to send off to the next life . |
| 43 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 44 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 45 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 46 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 47 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 48 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 49 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 50 | If she then plays 3 rounds of Spades trumping in dummy and proceeds to knock out the Ace of Clubs , East can simply hold off to the third round and then lead a Diamond . |
| 51 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 52 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 53 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 54 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 55 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 56 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 57 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 58 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 59 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 60 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |