Example sentences of "they were [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were fishing off Roches Point when Dave Scott tangled with the lively middleweight shark . |
| 2 | They were hanging off him , he never wears a belt |
| 3 | They were hanging off this young girl . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 6 | There had been lots of problems , and they were rushed off their feet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The wail started high and went higher , until they were shrieking off the register . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They were caught off Scilly by the Mounts Bay luggers , effective fish catchers but not rigged for speed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She said they were taken off waiting list after applying to take over the tenancy at Heydean Road in 1954 . |
| 16 | They were taken off the mountain by rescue teams from Oban and Dumbarton . |
| 17 | South Yorks police said they were selling off property recovered from crooks — or unclaimed loot from robberies . |