Example sentences of "[verb] off [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to the changing room first and was already stripping off as the sixteen other boys in the class barged in flinging satchels and blazers everywhere and kicking their shoes off so that they landed underneath the slatted benches that ran along each wall . |
| 2 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 3 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 4 | Like thoroughbred horses chafing at their bits before an important race , they are liable at any moment to sprint off at a hundred miles an hour in the wrong direction . |
| 5 | Instead , preceding even the title page is the injunction ‘ Immediately after buying this book , send off for the eight mail order catalogues listed on p.357 ’ . |
| 6 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 7 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 8 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 9 | Use of mundic tailed off in the Fifties . |
| 10 | The new governments all moved swiftly to restore relations with Israel which they had all , with the exception of Romania , broken off during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war [ see p. 22105 ] . |
| 11 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 12 | With Alan Leonard leading for him in the pairs semi-final , Graham got off to a 6-0 lead after five ends but Talbot and Nutt came storming back to open a 12-8 lead after 15 ends and after that never really looked like losing . |
| 13 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 14 | These reveal that TSP concentrations have halved since the 1960s. with the downward trend showing some levelling off during the 1980s ( figure 8.7 ) . |
| 15 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 16 | We set off for a five mile run in the woods to the south of the camp . |
| 17 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 18 | City fans are still livid over the clash with Bull that led to skipper Steve Walsh 's sending off in the 3-0 defeat at Molineux three weeks ago . |
| 19 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 20 | already certain of relegation , signed off with a 13–6 win over Towcestrians . |
| 21 | The friendship broke off in the 1880s . |
| 22 | Started off with a thousand pound , two thousand pound . |
| 23 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 24 | Her voice trailed off as the two pairs of eyes fixed on her and her head drooped as she said , ‘ That was a silly thing to say . |
| 25 | After the Corporate Relations ’ press officer 's wedding in August , Emma and new husband Tim Godfrey will jet off on the nine and a half hour flight from Heathrow to Grand Cayman via Miami . |
| 26 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 27 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 28 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 29 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 30 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |