Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] off [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final garden section has been screened off neatly with espalier fruit and given over to salad crops and utility elements such as a shed , a compost area and an incinerator ( essential ingredients in most compositions ) . |
| 2 | Duane 's artistic bent has been shown off frequently in the group 's Invasion of The Wedding Present fanzine . |
| 3 | So , I have told him before because he has been told off before for talking you know at the back |
| 4 | MARTIN Offiah has been let off lightly over his Charity Shield loser 's medal snub . |
| 5 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 6 | Any thoughtful linguist must wonder from time to time if such a legacy can have been shaken off completely in the relatively short time during which scientific linguistics has existed . |
| 7 | As the Welsh had been written off even by their most loyal supporters , the French media was at pains to try to explain to their bemused readership the concept of points differential , in other words point out that in order to win the cup France had to score at least as many points as England had in Dublin . |
| 8 | In Committee I gave a list of the bus stations in town and city centres in England that had been sold off similarly to , although rather less spectacularly than , the station in Southampton . |