Example sentences of "they were [verb] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she did not notice that they were riding off the main road and into The Chase , the oldest wood in England . |
| 2 | It was used in October 1991 to drive them , bound hand and foot , to Barrow Wake near Gloucester where they were pushed off the edge in a burning car . |
| 3 | The wail started high and went higher , until they were shrieking off the register . |
| 4 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 5 | Secondly we were erm concerned that the county had not erm thought properly about employment densities , erm they have backed away from using employment density today as a significant calculator , but I hope you 've noticed sir that the erm the county 's mind set on employment densities is that whereas in the last structure plan they were working off a density , average density of thirty four workers for hectare . |
| 6 | There 's a poster beside one of the machines — ‘ DO N'T DISREGARD — REPLACE THE GUARD ’ , it says … you have to laugh — there are no guards , they were taken off the machines to up the production , they only put them on when the big bosses are coming over from the States to inspect the place — the place really gets cleaned up then . |
| 7 | They were taken off the mountain by rescue teams from Oban and Dumbarton . |