Example sentences of "off [prep] the [num ord] " 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 | These are also concentrated in Kent with 65 per cent of the total ( 25 per cent at Faversham alone ) , and there is little change in this pattern through time except that the total quantities fall off during the seventh century . |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She set off for the second floor , but there was no police officer there . |
| 15 | Refreshed , and filled once again with energy we set off for the second time that day . |
| 16 | like that or your power is cut off because the E the M E B is digging the road up down and they say that your electric will be off for the next |
| 17 | Before he sets off for the next stage , he 's sharing his seafaring experiences . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | OMAGH TOWN had a man sent off for the third game in a row as they were outclassed at Shamrock Park . |
| 20 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 21 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |
| 22 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |
| 23 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 24 | East Berlin remained virtually sealed off for the fourth successive day yesterday , but in Poland a further 300 East Germans took refuge with the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Number one was Bob Dylan and she cut it off after the first sneering words of despair . |
| 29 | They took off at three Gs and cars behind had to stand on their noses to make way as the big Ford burned rubber off towards the next junction south and a break in the central barrier . |
| 30 | ‘ Not if you 're going to back off like the last one did . ’ |