Example sentences of "[verb] off at [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 2 | The stable , dry pedal boats can be picked up and dropped off at any of 5 moorings in the heart of the City . |
| 3 | I think in a community one does come across practical snags , like for example the differences become very marked between the businessman who goes off at eight in the morning and comes back at six , week in week out , year in year out , with perhaps sort of three or four weeks holiday , and the university men who appear to be around an awful lot of the time and appear to have a lot of holiday . |
| 4 | They 're topping the bill in the Central Match Live which kicks off at ten to three . |
| 5 | drop off at half past ten right , that 's |
| 6 | But the evenings were sacrosanct : we all knocked off at six for a happy hour round the fire with our drinks in winter and on the sun terrace in the summer . |
| 7 | They set off at half past five in Charlotte 's car . |
| 8 | We set off at seven in the morning after a particularly frantic bout of making-up : all three hijras cleaned their teeth with neem twigs , smudged on great quantities of lipstick and dusted their faces with blusher . |
| 9 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 10 | Last of the pair to depart was RF32 , taking off at 0900 on October 15 , 1956 . |
| 11 | And , and even if you were on night duty you 'd be on night duty for twelve hours , you 'd come off at eight in the morning and have to go to a lecture at nine . |
| 12 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 13 | Bishop Auckland will kick off at 2.30 at home to Seaham and hand former Newton Aycliffe player Gary Hamilton his debut at scrum half as skipper Willie Bond is unavailable . |
| 14 | Well , we come off duty , we go on duty tonight at half past ten , and we come off at half past ten on Friday night , and we actually leave Didcot fire station at half five Saturday morning to get there for first light so we can make most use of the light , daylight hours . |
| 15 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |
| 16 | Trish Johnson had a closing 70 to sign off at five under , while Sue Strudwick finished on the same mark . |
| 17 | Newspapers were full of stories of leukaemia clusters near nuclear establishments and of the long-term victims of Chernobyl and minor releases , people picked off at random within the pattern of statistical formulations . |
| 18 | These time-fused torpedoes fired , Micky Wynn set off at 0230 for the sea down river , while Commander Ryder moved into midstream to check the position , coming between the wrecks — five MLs were now blazing hulks — to within 250 yards ( 230m ) of the Mole 's batteries as Able Seaman Savage and his mate , AB F.A . |