Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [be] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 2 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 3 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 4 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 5 | That Mr Nadir skipped Britain 's biggest-ever bail aboard a chartered aircraft bound for northern Cyprus — his native land , from which Britain has little hope of extraditing him — may not be the SFO 's fault , although it had apparently been tipped off . |
| 6 | There was no more ugly brown wallpaper ; it had all been stripped off , and the walls were white-washed . |