Example sentences of "it have been [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 2 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 3 | It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead . |
| 4 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 5 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |
| 6 | Anyway , the young woman on the other end of the machine survived with daunting ease and told him that it was customary to charge interest on the whole month 's credit , unless it had been paid off in full . |
| 7 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 8 | It had been sealed off since ‘ the small accident ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk . |