Example sentences of "[vb past] off [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house .
2 He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London .
3 UI reportedly told staff laid off in the last two weeks that it was short of funds , attributing the situation to an accounting error .
4 Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit .
5 Ursula and Gianni got off at the next station but one , having brought their growing mutual admiration to a startling climax wedged solid among the rocking mass of sober commuters .
6 He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas .
7 The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century .
8 The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses .
9 Waggoner quietly got to his feet and walked off down the 17th .
10 The three players walked off to the next tee .
11 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 .
12 Even in that jungly light I see something does n't add up : can a corpse have half a nose and two fingers busted off at the first joint ?
13 We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary .
14 On every leg they gave us a cheese roll and several cups of coffee , and by the time we took off for the third time we were wearing a rut in the carpet down the aisle to the tail-end gents .
15 On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully .
16 Liam McNamara ( a North Shore surfer riding a Willis Phazer ) took off on the first , followed by Tony Moniz ( another local ) on the second and Carroll on the third .
17 We took off on the last leg for Tromsø .
18 We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath .
19 I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne .
20 The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes .
21 Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half .
22 Real Madrid showed too much passion and had two sent off in the last 16 minutes of their UEFA Cup tie at Sigma Olomouc of Czechoslovakia .
23 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 .
24 Buck got down in two for a par and strode off to the 18th tee two strokes in the lead .
25 He promptly went off at the next corner , punctured and limped the last five miles on a flat .
26 He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed .
27 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 .
28 Moodie , suffering a bout of flu , kept up the momentum but eased off on the last lap with a minor suspension problem .
29 Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her .
30 He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right .
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