Example sentences of "[noun sg] off [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
| 2 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 4 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ Overwhelming negativity marked this year off from the last ’ , he observed , ‘ … the real revolution is poetry , the revolution is in your mind . ’ |
| 6 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |