Example sentences of "[vb pp] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 2 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 3 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 4 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 5 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 6 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 7 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise ACT is written off in the profit and loss account . |
| 9 | The generation of surplus ACT has a detrimental effect on the company 's reported earnings , since it must usually be written off in the accounts . |
| 10 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 11 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 12 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 13 | The goodwill was fully written off in the year of acquisition and has been excluded from the calculation of profit on disposal ( see note 28 ) . |
| 14 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 15 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 16 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 17 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 18 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 19 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 20 | It was the perfect response from Mike Walker 's side after Saturday 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon which once again saw the East Anglians being written off in the title stakes . |
| 21 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 22 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 23 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 24 | With their bare hands , they fought to save the man who had an ear ripped off in the attack . |
| 25 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 26 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 27 | Distillation is another , in which flowers are boiled in water , and the essential oil given off in the steam is collected and condensed by cooling . |
| 28 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 29 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 30 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |