Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been wiped off the face of the earth before they could taste her fury . |
| 2 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 3 | The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel . |
| 4 | But as , presumably , they had been wiped off the face of the earth by someone pretty close to Ella Walsh or Rose Fox , there seemed little point in asking about them . |
| 5 | They had been hustled off the boat separately , and her inquisitor had simply ignored her demands to have Clive brought in so that he could confirm she had had no knowledge of what was going on . |
| 6 | Happily my inspector friend was at hand , He opened the Chief Constable 's hospitality cupboard , I had a dram and was told that they had been tipped off that afternoon about some Scot that would run some sheep through the Lion . |