Example sentences of "off in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 6 | Only Aston Villa defender Ugo Ehiogu and Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour , who limped off in the second half , emerged with any great credit . |
| 7 | There was no question of easing off in the second half . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 12 | The secular trend towards declining levels of crime levelled off in the first decade of this century . |
| 13 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I should never have let her go off in the first place . ’ |
| 19 | This will protect those personal community charge payers who would otherwise have been more than £3 per week worse off in the first year of Community Charge . |
| 20 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 21 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 22 | She is already at work on her next disc , but what of that Rodrigo concerto which set her off in the first place ? |
| 23 | On present estimates , the right could win as many as 80-90 seats straight off in the first round and the Socialists none . |
| 24 | They are expected to win some 100 seats straight off in the first round of voting , and the Socialists none . |
| 25 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |
| 26 | They 'll all come off in the first wash . |
| 27 | If you 've got an alarm which is faulty and repeatedly goes off then , nine times out of ten , you ought to switch the thing off in the first place . |
| 28 | On a difficult pitch Witney played some very attractive football , and with a little more luck could have finished the game off in the first half . |
| 29 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 30 | Dunstable withdrew yesterday from the FA Cup , but face disciplinary action after their remaining players walked off in the 38th minute of the tie at Staines after the referee Stephen Head sent off a third member of their team . |