Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 2 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 3 | When the various coats of paint were stripped off , Dick and his crew discovered that there was very little airframe corrosion externally or internally , and the fact that the airframe was out of reach of the public meant that the fairings and the skins were n't dented at all . |
| 4 | charged particles were given off . |
| 5 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 6 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 7 | The IRA claimed responsibility for the station attacks , blaming the Victoria casualties on " the cynical decision … not to evacuate railway stations " after a caller had warned 45 minutes earlier that bombs were to go off at all mainline stations . |
| 8 | If another bomb were to go off , just who would come through the ceiling ? |
| 9 | Course th the one of the wings wa , was bashed inside , they were hanging off ! |
| 10 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 11 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 12 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 13 | Although agreement was reached on establishing a UDF newspaper with a maximum 70,000-copy circulation , the talks were broken off by the UDF delegation on Jan. 18 after the BCP had refused to give written guarantees that the other promises would be fulfilled . |
| 14 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 15 | Diplomatic relations were restored with Nicaragua on Feb. 25 , 10 years after bilateral ties were broken off . |
| 16 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 17 | However , negotiations were broken off owing to the vehement opposition of anti-abortion Republicans , supported by Sununu . |
| 18 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 19 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 20 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 21 | On 8 May ( VE Day ) , diplomatic relations were broken off between Spain and Germany . |
| 22 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 23 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 24 | They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions — such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery . |
| 25 | This annoyed me , so when he said as we were driving off , ‘ What you were telling me — what happened ten years ago — did it work out all right ? ’ |
| 26 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |
| 27 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 28 | Police were tipped off that he would be at the wedding in Bradford . |
| 29 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 30 | Michael Johnson was arrested this afternoon after police were tipped off . |