Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no more ugly brown wallpaper ; it had all been stripped off , and the walls were white-washed . |
| 2 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 3 | That Mr Nadir skipped Britain 's biggest-ever bail aboard a chartered aircraft bound for northern Cyprus — his native land , from which Britain has little hope of extraditing him — may not be the SFO 's fault , although it had apparently been tipped off . |
| 4 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 5 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 6 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 7 | Hampson , who had not been sent off prior to this season , has had a wretched past seven weeks . |
| 8 | The South African was looking for this patterning , to ensure they had not been foisted off with sand-blasted bottle-glass or the other principal substitute , cubic zirconia . |
| 9 | These included a return to work for those who had not been laid off , the re-employment of the sacked strikers next week and a final , binding decision by the arbitration body ACAS . |
| 10 | He had pointed that out to Farag but Farag had not been put off . |
| 11 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 12 | The incident room was in darkness , except for a couple of desks whose reading lights had not been switched off , a glowing computer screen and the flashing red lights of some electrical equipment . |
| 13 | When Wickham asked why Pascoe had not been paid off Shildon adopted his sarcastic tone . |
| 14 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 15 | It was sad , nevertheless , that six months of planning had not been shown off to better effect . |
| 16 | Lewis suddenly wandered on to the stage and started playing , hotly pursued by the band , who had not been tipped off . |
| 17 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 18 | In the case of an eighth-century Pre-Khmer bronze figure of a Bodhisattva , estimated at £40,000-£60,000 , the body had been tested and proved ancient but it was clear that the head had once been broken off and re-attached . |
| 19 | Bradbury , who had also been sent off to this destination on 24 February , in company with Sqn.Ldr . |
| 20 | A week later he was dead , but by that time they had both been shipped off to England . |
| 21 | A statement said there was a spontaneous abortion and the life support machine had now been turned off . |
| 22 | When she had taken the trouble to go to school , lessons had often been called off because someone had vandalized some necessary piece of equipment . |
| 23 | ‘ If Harry had n't been rushed off to the hospital with chest pains today , ’ he continued , ‘ then I 'd still be at a loss as to know what my only daughter gets up to when my back is turned . ’ |
| 24 | Sophie was like an engine that had n't been switched off ; he could sense the energy in her and feel the heat . |
| 25 | She realized then that the coffin lid had simply been lifted off , letting in light from a long strip-light that hung from a plain rock ceiling . |
| 26 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 27 | However , the Jordanian government considered that a further US$40,000,000 owed to Saudi Arabia since the mid-1980s had previously been written off by the Saudi ruler King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |