Example sentences of "off [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 5 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 6 | Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes : |
| 7 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 8 | However the programme , based on OSF/DCE 1.0.1 and open to major accounts and ISVs , does n't kick off until the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 9 | Proceeding further southwards to Chester , and sales for Bookland were ‘ extremely good ’ at the beginning of November , tailing off until the last week before Christmas and Monday the 21st , ‘ the busiest day of the year for us ’ . |
| 10 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 11 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 12 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 17 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 18 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |
| 19 | The 22-year-old striker , a £20,000 capture from non-League Burton Albion , scored the 48th-minute winner that sunk Charlton , who had striker Garry Nelson sent off in the 69th minute for swearing at a linesman . |
| 20 | Daniel Amokachi , of Bruges , was sent off in the 77th minute for a foul on Bremen goalkeeper Oliver Reck . |
| 21 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 22 | Philip Schutte went off in the 18th minute after a tackle on Aadel Kardooni , and Wahl Bartmann followed in the 32nd minute with a shoulder injury . |
| 23 | USL chairman , AT&T executive Bob Kavner , says he talked with Ray Noorda on and off over the last year about acquiring USL . |
| 24 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We took off on the last leg for Tromsø . |
| 28 | Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem . |
| 29 | Beating off an ambush by ‘ eighty infidels on foot ’ , he and his train headed off on the last stage of his journey through the burning plains of the Punjab towards the mighty Indian capital and the palace of the Sultan . |
| 30 | After a quick breakfast we set off to the first address on the list . |