Example sentences of "off at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Rugby Union , Chinnor and Swindon , they 'll be locked in combat in the first round of the Oxfordshire Courage floodlit Cup , and that match kicks off at the southern by-pass ground at seven fifteen . |
| 2 | Watch your timing as you play this and make sure that you cut each chord off at the correct time . |
| 3 | I remember the smiles of delight which spread across the face of one mother when the little fleshly alarm clock which I had been handed , went off at the crucial moment . |
| 4 | So , will you join me , or should I drop you off at the nearest station ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 6 | I nearly always won , as I remember ; and as we left the club or the hall I would make quite a show of hailing a taxi , offering to drop Julian off at the nearest tube . |
| 7 | David Branch , Peter Evans and David Miller had just teed off at the 15th hole in a competition . |
| 8 | He kept it rolling and swerved off at the first exit on the right . |
| 9 | Instead , people learn to back off at the first sign that somebody might disapprove . |
| 10 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 11 | I 'll drop you off at the first station we come to . ’ |
| 12 | I took off at the first light and made the rendezvous as planned and found the fighters had just become airborne . |
| 13 | The stem of this one was easily broken and often the head would fly off at the first stroke . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back . |
| 16 | Getting a good set of prints is not cheap , although there are less expensive rates for students and most actors have a stock of postcard size prints that they can send off at the merest rumour of work . |
| 17 | Fen dropped her off at the front door of Chimneys . |
| 18 | She dropped a sulky David off at the Grand Hotel . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 20 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 21 | Until after 1900 the Belgian miners took time off at the right season ( if necessary by an annual ‘ potato strike ’ ) to look after their potato patches . |
| 22 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 23 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 24 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 25 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 26 | The padlocks would be off at the main entrance by now , for the late-morning mail and for bar deliveries . |
| 27 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 28 | Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run . |
| 29 | As I have to come back to the airport to pick up a member of tonight 's convention it will be easy to drop you off at the same time . ’ |
| 30 | and my , my , me and my brother are gon na be off at the same time |