Example sentences of "[verb] off at the [num ord] [noun] " 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 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 3 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 9 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 10 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 14 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 15 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 18 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 19 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 20 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 21 | If you 've got signs on the main line saying traffic point , traffic censors ahead , you 're gon na have people saying oh sod that I 'll get off at the next junction instead |
| 22 | Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her . |
| 23 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 24 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 25 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |