Example sentences of "off [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the day appointed , the aircraft took off with the first stick , all of whom landed successfully . |
| 32 | ‘ I took three weeks off with the first . ’ |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | He ordered the driver and two officers to get out … and then drove off with the third towards London . |
| 39 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 40 | Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though . |
| 41 | set off before the last grunt of the dinosaurs |
| 42 | However the programme , based on OSF/DCE 1.0.1 and open to major accounts and ISVs , does n't kick off until the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 43 | Proceeding further southwards to Chester , and sales for Bookland were ‘ extremely good ’ at the beginning of November , tailing off until the last week before Christmas and Monday the 21st , ‘ the busiest day of the year for us ’ . |
| 44 | I 'm terribly lazy and always put it off until the last minute . ’ |
| 45 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
| 46 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 47 | The pressure paid off in the 58th minute when central defender Whelan , scorer of a late winner at Southend on Saturday , rose to direct a far-post header over Stowell , in the Wolves goal , from one of Thompson 's many excellent dead-ball crosses . |
| 48 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 49 | At half-time a note was passed to the Scottish dressing-room telling the young striker that he would be shot if he did not ease off in the second half . |
| 50 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 51 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 52 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 53 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 54 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 57 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 58 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |