Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 9 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 10 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |