Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 2 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 3 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 4 | The woods were cordoned off yesterday and kept under police guard overnight . |
| 5 | Battery and fuel switches were turned off either just before or after ground impact and an attempt was made to close the thrust levers , but these would not move . |
| 6 | I 'm never late for things , I try really hard to be late , but I just ca n't be because we were told off so much about it . |
| 7 | They were hangin' off anyway , ’ he told her matter-of-factly . |
| 8 | Whether that was due to incompetence or corruption , we shall never know , but we know that public assets were sold off cheaply to be sold on dear . |
| 9 | The papers were sold off quarterly ; " Punch " at I Id a copy and " The London Times " at 5/3 a quarter . |
| 10 | Well , I saw his van really , once when he came to pick up Billy when they were going off somewhere for the weekend . |
| 11 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 12 | But people were popping off again like last year . |
| 13 | All major rugby matches locally were called off today . |
| 14 | And but at Fords we they we were laid off again for this other weekend till they took stock . |
| 15 | And they were laid off I mean squads were laid off even before the boat was anywhere near finished . |
| 16 | And the six pieces of luggage , two large , two medium and two small , were taken off again and laid on the platform . |
| 17 | Some were taken off far too quickly for the audience to take in the information presented . |
| 18 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 19 | Well we were start off there and , he wanted that one , he tried it on . |
| 20 | HOPES of a rally were killed off yesterday by Government figures reflecting a stagnant economy . |
| 21 | Newport3 NEWBRIDGE moved to joint third place in the Heineken League with their ninth win in an ill-tempered game where David Roberts , the Newbridge flanker , and Frank Hillman , the Newport prop , were sent off midway through the second half for fighting . |
| 22 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 23 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 24 | Just a word about your fitness Simon , last time we saw you , your neck was hanging off virtually , is it all back together again , you 're rebuilt ? |
| 25 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 26 | she was let off lightly this morning cos there was hardly any ironing to be done you see , because I have n't worn |
| 27 | ‘ There ca n't be anything ecological about preserving South American rodents in Suffolk , ’ Adam protested , but by then Mary was tearing off downstairs , bent on tackling the coypu controller herself . |
| 28 | Major announced on Oct. 17 that the UK was to write off unilaterally some US$850,000,000 in debts owed by the poorest countries — two-thirds of the debt owed by some 20 countries . |
| 29 | Pears was whisked off still wearing his goalkeeper 's jersey and limping heavily after being hurt in the final minutes . |
| 30 | Vidor was praised even as he was written off as box-office . |