Example sentences of "were [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 32 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
| 33 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 34 | A 7% jump in half-time profits to £23.1m , came alongside news from boss Peter Barr that acquisitions were off the menu . |
| 35 | TWO of BSkyB 's senior presenters were off air last night after a spectacular bust-up . |
| 36 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 37 | She said : ‘ He wanted me over his lap , so my feet were off the ground . |
| 38 | Luis , it 's high time you were off watch ! |
| 39 | A lay person asked whether both his feet were off the ground simultaneously when he walked would probably be wrong as often as right . |
| 40 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 41 | April orders on the usual three-month moving average , were $2,166m , and although they were off 0.6% , they were up 35.1% on the year ago figure . |
| 42 | The shares were off 2.8% at 2pm . |
| 43 | Sun Microsystems Inc turned up last week with record revenues of $1.05bn for its second quarter ended December 31 , up 15.5% — however net profits were off 27.7% at $34.3m . |
| 44 | Revenues for the year were off 9.9% at $517.0m . |
| 45 | In autumn 1989 she asked her colleague , Annie Caubet , head of the Louvre 's Department of Oriental Antiquities , if it would be possible to mount a loan exhibition while the objects were off view . |
| 46 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 47 | After two complete runs of the 15-minute piece he looked visibly tired when asked to provide a couple of extra takes covering the few bars where orchestra members were off key . |
| 48 | They were off the cinder track now , walking down a hilly street where small , dark houses opened straight on to the pavement . |
| 49 | They were off running the travel business and having affairs with all those couriers and secretaries and people while the wives prayed and cooked and had babies . ’ |
| 50 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 51 | And erm we used to go into the assembly hall every morning for prayer and then we should just go up to the erm we we used to go upstairs to the er to the classrooms which were off a long corridor . |
| 52 | There was one long corridor and all the classrooms were were off this corridor you see , I I should think there 'd be er five , five classrooms , it was it was no sixth form . |
| 53 | And er the classrooms were off this with sort of wooden petitions and glass , in the door . |
| 54 | ‘ I thought you were off food , ’ I said . |
| 55 | They were off the subject of Jenner — at least , in any direct sense — but he wanted to go on watching and listening to her talk . |
| 56 | By the time we were off the Capes , there was water flying in all directions and glad cries as the Bénéteaus surfed down the glassy fronts of the swells . |
| 57 | A few were off duty that evening . |
| 58 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 59 | And it was always sort of open house and the nurses used to come in when they were off duty a lot . |
| 60 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |