Example sentences of "was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 2 | COPIOUS helpings of greens were available but Nescafe was off the menu on Wednesday at the first Caroline Walker awards ceremony , in memory of the campaigning nutritionist who died aged 38 last year . |
| 3 | After Mironov and Chapman had twice exchanged penalties in the first half , Chapman 's smart 30-yard dropped goal five minutes after the break put Cornwall ahead for the first time while Mishakov was off the field with a shoulder injury . |
| 4 | Jane was no great cook , and did n't even enjoy it , but she had brought up a family of four , so quickly got her bearings in the kitchen , which was off the main circular room . |
| 5 | Keown , an important part of Everton 's defence , was off the field for treatment to an eye injury when Gayle 's long ball enabled the veteran Cork to score his first goal for United since his move from Wimbledon . |
| 6 | We kept awake with cups of cocoa , which was off the ration . |
| 7 | When this system was used the clipping and storing of the fleeces were completed while the sun was off the yard . |
| 8 | Pendero was off the day I was riding him , that 's what matters . |
| 9 | ‘ I was off the train there and saw it . |
| 10 | Being a human zoo was acceptable , provided the Indian accent was off the menu . |
| 11 | For a second his mind was off the ball , leaving it free for Patrick Lombard to belt in and whip it away , dribbling it for a few yards , then powering it to Mike , who , relishing his new freedom at Number Two , took it up field . |
| 12 | Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook . |
| 13 | ( I got very adept at ‘ Swiss darning ’ and picking up dropped stitches with a latch tool when the garment was off the machine . ) |
| 14 | Bob Hope was off the scale altogether and Peter O'Toole was worse than the whole lot put together . |
| 15 | For a large part of 1975 a major transmitter in Zambia 's Copperbelt was off the air because of the lengthy procedures involved in the purchase of a small spare part . |
| 16 | Others unashamedly hugged each other as they realised the Government was off the hook , if only for the moment . |
| 17 | Mike Tyson , the 1991 runner-up , now in prison for rape , was off the list . |
| 18 | She also picked a shiny rayon for the yarn after dropping stitches right left and centre and making several false starts , I studied the pattern and taught myself how to latch up and darn in ( when the work was off the machine ) so that my ‘ botching ’ did not show . |
| 19 | The tunnelling that the Frenchman was paid — and handsomely — to supervise was off the road to Arbil , close to the village of Salahuddin , due north of Baghdad . |
| 20 | Patients sent to the lunatic asylum , which was off the Ampthill Road , were charged at a weekly rate to the directors according to the numbers ; in 1818 for example , the cost was £18.12s. , but two years later , £78 . |
| 21 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 22 | Then — in the same second , it seemed — he was off the cart and racing towards them . |
| 23 | Soon she was off the road , clambering over the hummocks of Starr Hills . |
| 24 | He lay with her for a little while as if all had been for the best and when , with a sudden , slithering movement , she was off the bed and into her dress , he thanked her , wished her good night . |
| 25 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 26 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 27 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 28 | I thought she was off the case as well . ’ |
| 29 | The man that was on the mower , they had an eye to that they would just wait until it was off the the Where it was cut you see ? |
| 30 | He was off the hook . |