Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] the second [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half .
2 Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit .
3 There was no question of easing off in the second half .
4 Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day .
5 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 .
6 However the programme , based on OSF/DCE 1.0.1 and open to major accounts and ISVs , does n't kick off until the second quarter of 1993 .
7 This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks …
8 Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence .
9 That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year .
10 She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there .
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