Example sentences of "take off [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 3 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 4 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 5 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 6 | Cricket was just beginning to take off in the mid-19th century . |