Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 2 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 4 | Saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills oasis ( Figure 4.5 ) string out along a valley , formerly a marine inlet , which rose and was cut off from the sea 5000–8000 years ago when the local land ice melted ( Kerry et al . , |
| 5 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |
| 6 | When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother . |
| 7 | He did the 60-mile run in 2 hrs 55 mins — and was ticked off for going over the 20mph speed limit . |
| 8 | She tried to brush her assailant aside with the words , ‘ One day all the facts , in about thirty years ’ time , will be published , ’ and was ticked off in return . |
| 9 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 10 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 11 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 12 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 13 | The De Obsessione says that Malcolm assaulted Durham and was driven off by Uhtred during Æthelred 's reign , and the Irish Annals of Ulster record fighting between Scots and English in 1005 ( recte 1006 ) . |
| 14 | A call by the Federation of Niger Trade Unions ( USTN ) for a general strike " in defence of democracy " was widely observed on March 2 but was called off on March 3 following government pledges that no political concessions would be made to the mutineers . |
| 15 | I excused myself but was ticked off for trying to slim . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw you lasht night an' … ’ he began to sing a romantic song from our courting days , but was cut off in mid warble as he tripped over my hiking boots and crashed into the wardrobe head first . |
| 17 | The following year he tried to buy Outram 's Glasgow papers but was beaten off by nationalist feeling ( Thomson being Canadian ) and the resources of the Scottish financier Lord Fraser . |
| 18 | His father drove some of the way , but was dropped off by Clarke before the accident happened on the A4095 at Curbridge . |
| 19 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 20 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 21 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |