Example sentences of "[verb] off in [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
2 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
3 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
9 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
10 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |