Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |
| 2 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 3 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 4 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 5 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 6 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 7 | He then slowly pulled out some bank notes and furtively handed them over to the large man , who patted him on the back and quickly got off at the next station . |
| 8 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 9 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 10 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 11 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 12 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 13 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 14 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 15 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 16 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 17 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 18 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 19 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 20 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 21 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 22 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 23 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 24 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 25 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 26 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 27 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 28 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 29 | The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station . |
| 30 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |