Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition .
2	Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe .
3	They come close to enjoining all scientists to refuse to engage in military research but then back off at the last moment .
4	There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure .
5	He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’
6	After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list .
7	Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day .
8	Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn .
9	But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail .
10	set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs
11	If you do , make a third column and ask the LH to say the first and second words in the " different " column , then the first and third , etc. , as you tick off in the third column the ones that are now different from the new no. 1 .
12	These are also concentrated in Kent with 65 per cent of the total ( 25 per cent at Faversham alone ) , and there is little change in this pattern through time except that the total quantities fall off during the seventh century .

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