Example sentences of "[vb pp] off at the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 3 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 4 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 5 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 8 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 9 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 13 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 14 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 17 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 18 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 19 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |