Example sentences of "[verb] off [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 2 | The whole of USL was valued at $325m eighteen months ago when AT&T sold off the first 21.7% . |
| 3 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 4 | Stepping off the last rung , she turned . |
| 5 | But I 've jumped off the second one , I have n't dived off the second one . |
| 6 | Well this guy 's jumped off the second board and done a belly flop |
| 7 | They wanted finally to see off the third party ; predictably , they failed . ) |
| 8 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 9 | It had settled already on the mounds still lying heaped on the field , white as quicklime ; flesh not yet cold and consigned already to ashes ; bone , juice , and fibre still consuming its fuel , deflating from its last action ; sponging off the last image and led already to dust . |
| 10 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 11 | He turned an enquiring gaze upon her as she marched towards the house , but before following her he held out his hands to Millie as she went to jump off the last step , saying now in a low tone , ‘ It looks a good enough day ’ — he pointed to the back of the cart — ‘ what 's up ? ’ |
| 12 | We were just walking off the 18th — with yet another par , and yet another good one but without a birdie to the end — when the crowd started fidgeting because they were looking at the scoreboard . |
| 13 | I was looking down at my plate , licking my finger and picking off the last few crumbs , transferring them to my mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 15 | As we came off the 17th green Seve said , ‘ There 's going to be a playoff . ’ |
| 16 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 17 | As he came off the 13th green he was six under fours with five holes to play and Patrick 's prospects of collecting had improved . |
| 18 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 19 | His hundred , the ninth in a career which has now entered its 15th year , came off the last ball of the game after his captain , Graham Gooch , had delayed the final formality of a declaration . |
| 20 | When Tony came off the last , after holing his putt for yet another three , Jack Nicklaus was sitting on a tee-box waiting to start his last round . |
| 21 | SAM Torrance finished three shots ahead of his nearest challenger after the third round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo but came off the last green a disappointed man . |
| 22 | We banged off the last roll of film recording our epic journey of discovery before setting off in the direction of Charles de Gaulle Airport . |
| 23 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 24 | I di I dive off the first board but I could n't even jump or drop off the second board . |
| 25 | Nothing further was said either to or by our guests , and they drove off the next day with many felicitations and expressions of gratitude . |
| 26 | It also enhanced the national rivalries that would eventually touch off the First World War . |
| 27 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 28 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
| 29 | It 's just a question of you know , marking off every second square . |
| 30 | Dexter looked back and saw Russell drain off the last drops of his lager . |