Example sentences of "off after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 2 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 3 | The inquest heard that the driver ran off after the accident , in which a motorcyclist and a pedestrian were also injured . |
| 4 | ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others . |
| 5 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 6 | We get the morning off after the scheme , but I reckon we shall be pretty tired . |
| 7 | Ever-changing regulations cause stress both because of the need to become familiar with new rules and because of the sensitivity needed to cope with clients who may be worse off after the changes . |
| 8 | Case loads of course built up gradually as the samples were generated , and then tailed off after the recruitment year ended . |
| 9 | Naturally it had to be washed off after the show before outdoor clothes were put on . |
| 10 | Then they set off after the horses . |
| 11 | Blissett , 28 , was sent off after the incident in December 1991 . |
| 12 | Blissett , 28 , of Rickmansworth , Herts , was sent off after the clash in December 1991 . |
| 13 | The driver sped off after the accident with his unconscious victim draped across the front of his red BMW . |
| 14 | ESSEX police are hunting a motorist who ran off after the stolen car he was driving overturned . |
| 15 | McGiven said : ‘ It 's as if subconsciously we switched off after the Wimbledon game and were caught off guard . |
| 16 | True , the crab-men had begun to take an unhealthy interest in him once his companions had rushed off after the Harlequin man . |
| 17 | Hooves sounded loud in the yard as Colonel Winckler took off after the Prince . |
| 18 | According to Hyde , the ‘ purge ’ only really took off after the Burgess/Maclean scandal in 1951 when the two diplomats fled to the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | The police charged off after the fictitious yobs and we rushed in the opposite direction back to the track ! |
| 20 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 21 | Artemis 's horse whipped round twice , plunged and bucked , and then with Artemis , much to its apparent displeasure , still well on board , took off after the leading group . |
| 22 | Whitlock mounted one of the police motorcycles , kick-started it , then slewed it violently in an ungainly one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and took off after the getaway car . |
| 23 | shall I finish off after the break ? |
| 24 | She stood up , instructed her legs to stop feeling like jelly , and set off after the machine . |
| 25 | She hurried off after the others . |
| 26 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 27 | The remains of the Polish K4 are carried off after the collision . |
| 28 | Men , as he tried to pull himself to his feet , something big and heavy and square cannoned into him out of the dark and plunged off after the wizard . |
| 29 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 30 | However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs . |