Example sentences of "[vb past] off the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 2 | It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . |
| 3 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 4 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 5 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 6 | I moved off the dredger in nineteen thirty two and I was crane driving from nineteen thirty two till after the war . |
| 7 | I was the favourite to win the ‘ double ’ , but in the 200 metres , though I came off the bend in the lead , I relaxed too much and first John Regis and then Todd Bennett came past me . |
| 8 | Didier Auriol , the French driver , drove off the road in Tuscany and wrote off his new car in the fifth special stage , while Massimo Biasion , the Italian world champion , suffered a puncture in the next special stage . |
| 9 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 10 | They heard it , wheeled up in the air towards it and right past me and it turned off the road in fear . |
| 11 | THE Welsh Rugby Union has banned Neath from touring abroad for three years because they walked off the pitch in a pre-season friendly in France last August . |
| 12 | Nearly 30,000 East German steel , metal and electrical workers walked off the job in the region 's first big strike since unification . |
| 13 | Such was the shock that I walked off the site in a state of mental turmoil after all the farewells at the season 's end . |
| 14 | NO FANFARE , no TV crews , no government ministers were there to greet former hostage Ali Bourequat when he stepped off the plane in Paris after 19 years in Moroccan jails . |
| 15 | Ken broke off the routine in mid-flow and went back behind the flat . |
| 16 | Nick broke off the engagement in 1988 to concentrate on his career as a musician in local rock bands . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , Clare lay off the path in a place where the ground dipped , so she could not be seen . |
| 18 | The person in the back fell off the seat in the cab — it was just raining glass everywhere . |
| 19 | Pallister won the backing of Middlesbrough players even before he kicked off the line in the Rumbelows League Cup semi-final at Old Trafford . |
| 20 | Two boys and three girls aged between seven and nineteen died when a car ran off the road in Akers Way in September last year . |
| 21 | And Bart-Williams rounded off the thrashing in the 81st minute . |
| 22 | We stood off the ball in some tackles . ’ |
| 23 | Fourteen other entrants jumped off the pier in crazy costumes and strange flying machines . |
| 24 | Late in the session he missed a curve and slid off the circuit in his McLaren-Ford . |