Example sentences of "they be [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are run off computers by the crisply-produced hundred . |
| 2 | As items are chosen they are crossed off the list to avoid duplication , and a note will be made of the donor 's name . |
| 3 | First it multiplies all the spots of light in the scene , because they are reflected off the wet surfaces . |
| 4 | First it multiplies all the spots of light in the scene , because they are reflected off the wet surfaces . |
| 5 | If they are thrown off the land they will have no home or work . |
| 6 | There are also special plates printed by auctioneers when they are selling off the library of some eminent man , or put in by librarians to denote a special gift or legacy of books . |
| 7 | Those may or may not lead to training or jobs but once a person registers for an interview they are taken off the jobless total . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ They are coming off the railway line and I am worried about it . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ They are coming off the railway line and I am worried about it . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ They are coming off the railway line and I am worried about it . |
| 11 | They are shutting off 35 roads in Handsworth , Birmingham , to create 28 ‘ public safety zones ’ for the event which is expected to attract 500,000 visitors . |
| 12 | How much money they 're taking off you ! |
| 13 | They 're laying off more like . |
| 14 | So they 're going off their trolley |
| 15 | and they thought , they said then it was connected with the accident , erm because it , you know , she was in such a bad way , and , the other fellow was to blame , I think he 'd been drinking , I 'm not sure , but they 're claiming off the insurance and they reckon she 's gon na be entitled to around a hundred thousand pounds compensation , because , not only has she had these physical injuries , but because she had a knock on the head it 's also affecting her mental state |
| 16 | So they 're all , they 're trading off their gains from economies of scale , right , with erm , variability of , of income that may result from sort of , putting all their eggs in one basket , so diversification is the main way in which farmers cope er , with an uncertain environment . |
| 17 | They were fishing off Roches Point when Dave Scott tangled with the lively middleweight shark . |
| 18 | They were hanging off him , he never wears a belt |
| 19 | They were hanging off this young girl . |
| 20 | The wedding started with a simple service in City Hall with just a few witnesses , but once the hotel heard that Brenda and Pete wished to get married on the beach , they were swept off their feet . |
| 21 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 22 | There had been lots of problems , and they were rushed off their feet . |
| 23 | It was used in October 1991 to drive them , bound hand and foot , to Barrow Wake near Gloucester where they were pushed off the edge in a burning car . |
| 24 | The wail started high and went higher , until they were shrieking off the register . |
| 25 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 26 | And that 's the time they were put off work when the quarry , of the why the quarry shut it , they had too much expense on the electricity to pump the water from this from the mine . |
| 27 | They were caught off Scilly by the Mounts Bay luggers , effective fish catchers but not rigged for speed . |
| 28 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 29 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 30 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |