Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 2 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 3 | It was the perfect response from Mike Walker 's side after Saturday 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon which once again saw the East Anglians being written off in the title stakes . |
| 4 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 5 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 6 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 7 | Instead of a secondary fermentation in the cask to add a full , mature palate , keg beers are killed off in the brewery by a number of unnatural processes that affect the taste and quality of the product . |
| 8 | Instead of a secondary fermentation in the cask to add a full , mature palate , keg beers are killed off in the brewery by filtration , chilling and pasteurisation . |
| 9 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 10 | Dozens of slates from their roofs were blown off in the blast . |