Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 2 | At length the big green truck arrived and we were bumping off to an anxious reception from Mrs. Anxious about her fragile porcelain , I should say . |
| 3 | The taxi driver who left us at the station , enchanted by the idea that we were setting off for the source of the Nile , refused to accept any fare . |
| 4 | Why did you suppose we were setting off with a stretcher and torches , at this time of night ? ’ |
| 5 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 6 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 7 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 8 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 9 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 10 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 11 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 12 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 13 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 14 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 15 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 16 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 17 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 18 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 19 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 20 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 21 | Back at camp , with Ansell 's note of explanation , they were let off with a caution . |
| 22 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |