Example sentences of "[vb infin] off [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 2 | If she then plays 3 rounds of Spades trumping in dummy and proceeds to knock out the Ace of Clubs , East can simply hold off to the third round and then lead a Diamond . |
| 3 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 6 | However the programme , based on OSF/DCE 1.0.1 and open to major accounts and ISVs , does n't kick off until the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 7 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |