Example sentences of "[conj] have been [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 2 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 3 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 4 | For those that have been put off by the laborious nature of the program 's drawing method the new freehand and auto trace tools offer a quick and easy method of generating high quality artwork from scanned or existing material . |
| 5 | He had married Audrey , and had been sent off to the Aleutian Islands for an anti-Jap campaign before being demobbed . |
| 6 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
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