Example sentences of "off for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Never wipe Rosie and Jim off for a long time .
2 Could not something be done to obtain some repair jobs to hold those workers so that they will not have to be laid off for a considerable time ?
3 In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe .
7 Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day .
8 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 .
9 GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee .
10 Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes :
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