Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house . |
| 2 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 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 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 6 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 7 | The three players walked off to the next tee . |
| 8 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 9 | On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents . |
| 10 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 11 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 12 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 13 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 14 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 15 | Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead . |
| 16 | He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat . |
| 17 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 18 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 19 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 22 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 23 | At the same time , on the other side of the range , Christophe Moulin , a 33-year-old guide from Briancon , set off for the first solo ascent ( and incidentally the first repeat ) of Jean-Marc Boivin 's Ballade Au Clair du Lune : a hooks-and-copperheads A4 on the south face of the Fou . |
| 24 | Disconsolately , we got back into the rickshaws and set off to the next address . |
| 25 | As the sun sinks , the young bats stream from the cave-mouth like smoke and set off on the first stage of their long journey south . |