Example sentences of "off [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 4 | If a pup from the England A team should over-pitch the new ball , then , sure as eggs are eggs , England 's captain will tonk it back past him and set off for the first runs of 1992 . |
| 5 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 6 | Malc 's parents moved into our house to look after Lee and Max and loaded with amps , speakers and suitcases , we set off for the first of twelve gigs — a Sunday lunch , one spot , fourteen quid — money for old rope . |
| 7 | At the same time , on the other side of the range , Christophe Moulin , a 33-year-old guide from Briancon , set off for the first solo ascent ( and incidentally the first repeat ) of Jean-Marc Boivin 's Ballade Au Clair du Lune : a hooks-and-copperheads A4 on the south face of the Fou . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 13 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 14 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 15 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 16 | WHILE the Ipswich fans taunted ‘ You 're going down with the Arsenal ’ , Town star John Wark predicted that troubled Manchester United could still walk off with the first Premier League Championship . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 20 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 21 | Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though . |
| 22 | The FA will also investigate Dunstable 's bizarre exit from the FA Cup on Saturday when the entire team walked off in their second-round qualifying tie at Staines after having three players sent off in the first 38 minutes . |
| 23 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 24 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 25 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 26 | Inter , second at the start of play , crashed 3-0 at second-from-bottom Ancona and had former Italy goalkeeper Walter Zenga sent off in the first half . |
| 27 | It is generally much easier simply to let cut material fall with this kind of work , but remember that clearing up every scrap afterwards is just as important as cutting it off in the first place . |
| 28 | There are rumours that most of the sides which face off in the first weekend of post-season action could be absorbed into a new , more important third tier of the Heineken League structure . |
| 29 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 30 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |