Example sentences of "[verb] off the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not saying I chose an affair expressly to ward off the 30th birthday blues , but my age and stage contributed more than mere chance . |
| 2 | Nice control on the ball by Gemmell Rozario shakes off the first challenge from Whitlow and feeds Black . |
| 3 | First came the preliminary soundings ( the trabajos ) and the winning over of officers and sergeants by a small activist group in touch with civilian conspirators ; then the compromisos by which accomplices were bound to action ; finally the chosen leaders set off the last stage by the cry — the grito . |
| 4 | But before she could set off the next day , the hospital telephoned with bad news . |
| 5 | By the terms of the Tomlin order the appellants agreed to pay off the second charge and to grant a further charge to the plaintiff for the purpose of securing payment to the plaintiff of the sum of £150,000 , such payment being one of the terms of the agreement made between the parties . |
| 6 | We 'd finished off the second round with an eagle when Lee put one in from miles away , and in the third round he seemed to be holing putts right , left and centre , which was a good job because we 'd fallen foul of the 6th again , for the third time . |
| 7 | Morland 's has fought off the first attempt by the Suffolk based company Greene King to takeover it and its three hundred pubs … |
| 8 | The rout of German self-opinion meant that while Britain , France , Holland and Belgium were busy shaking off the last vestiges of feudal restraint in order to industrialise , the Prussian reaction to defeat was to define their contribution to the world as Kultur — a commodity that was best seen as the absence of change . |
| 9 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |