Example sentences of "off [prep] [art] first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 2 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 3 | He had badly wanted to sign off with a first victory in Adelaide and a record 10th in a single season . |
| 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 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |
| 10 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 11 | 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 . |