Example sentences of "[verb] off at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 2 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 3 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 4 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 5 | Very much easier to produce , these weeping standards consist simply of an easily struck rambler cutting with only the one single strongest shoot allowed to develop into a whip and stopped off at the desired height — or you can throw all convention to the winds and simply use a short pillar , fix an umbrella into position , and let a normal growing rambler fall over it . |
| 6 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 7 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 8 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 9 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 10 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 11 | If you 're looking for ground-breaking mayhem , you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop . |
| 12 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 13 | Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters . |
| 14 | Linearity appeared to fall off at the -90dB level , not of much concern , and there was a small amount of high frequency hash in the output at -78dB . |
| 15 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 16 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 17 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 18 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 19 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 20 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 21 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 22 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 23 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 24 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 25 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 26 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 29 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 30 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |