Example sentences of "be [adv] [adv] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you thought that era had been long since killed off by the replacement of British wrestling on our screens by the outrageous comic-book exploits of the Americans , you would be horribly wrong . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 3 | Many people are just plain scared off by the amount of organising a walking trip abroad suggests , not to mention the travel , the awesome scale of the mountains by British standards , and even the language barrier . |
| 4 | The left wing , though still attached to the fuselage , had been almost completely sheared off between the inner engine and the fuselage and was angled back about thirty degrees from normal . |
| 5 | We were once more cut off from reality in our underground prison . |
| 6 | Many of them were also completely cut off from the normal trading conditions that enable people to exercise choice . |
| 7 | School was going to be closed early because the rain had not stopped and the school and village were nearly totally cut off from everywhere else . |
| 8 | French nationals were evacuated by French army helicopter from both towns , which were now virtually cut off from contact with the outside world . |
| 9 | What came to be known as ‘ inter-ethnic communication ’ problems were quite often triggered off by prejudice , racial discrimination and stereotypes . |
| 10 | The floor , laid down between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , is now largely roped off from the thousands of tourists who visit the basilica each month . |
| 11 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 12 | The pain the City is now feeling is too easily brushed off as a short-term punch in the stomach from the economy . |
| 13 | But it 's never really taken off in this country ! |
| 14 | Royal Ballerina was only just touched off by Intrepidity in the English Oaks and then was runner-up again in the Irish version when Weymss Bright triumphed . |
| 15 | Royal Ballerina was only just touched off by Intrepidity in the English Oaks and then was runner-up again in the Irish version when Weymss Bright triumphed . |
| 16 | I was also rather put off by the fact I had inadvertently climbed to the summit of Cairn Gorm from the restaurant at the top of the chairlift one drizzly afternoon years ago . |