Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 2 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 3 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 4 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 5 | His dog tags had been blown off in the blast and the head wound had severely damaged his memory so that no one had any idea of his identity . |
| 6 | He had married Audrey , and had been sent off to the Aleutian Islands for an anti-Jap campaign before being demobbed . |
| 7 | He rang Inspector Lane to check that Sergeant Evans had been sent off on the business in Essex , to be told Evans was already on his way there . |
| 8 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 9 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 10 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 11 | During talks on Feb. 2 the two sides agreed to resume border trade which had been cut off since the 1962 Sino-Indian War . |
| 12 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 13 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 14 | Two days of high-level bilateral talks , held in Madrid , the Spanish capital , on Feb. 14-15 , ended in an agreement signed by the United Kingdom and Argentina to restore full diplomatic relations , which had been broken off at the beginning of the Falklands ( Malvinas ) war in April 1982 . |
| 15 | Relations with Iraq had been broken off at the time of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and US diplomatic business in Baghdad was handled by a US Interests section at the Belgian embassy ( headed by the author of an authoritative work on Kurdish affairs , William Eagleton Jnr ) . |
| 16 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 17 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 18 | Turkey is the third of those three NATO countries , along with Greece and Germany , which had been sliced off by the cold war from a familiar next-door world . |
| 19 | At the hotel a tearful maid told the sailor pair the tragic news that Bessie had been carried off to the cholera hospital . |
| 20 | Some streets which had been closed off during the intifada would be gradually re-opened . |
| 21 | In a controversial aspect of the data collection , the subjects were allowed to think that the tape recorder had been switched off after the formal interviews , and were encouraged to talk informally by a young white member of the research team , who dissociated himself from the preceding interviews and " spent the duration of the recording sitting on the floor " ( Edwards 1986 : 74 ) . |
| 22 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 23 | In the ensuing raid by our officers , who had been tipped off about the smuggling run , a pitched battle between our men and the smugglers had led to several amusing incidents , related to us by local officers . |
| 24 | By now a total of 26 reservoirs had been sealed off throughout the country mainly owing to blooms of blue-green algae . |