Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 2 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 5 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 6 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |