Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton seven hours after her ordeal began … |
| 2 | She was eventually dropped off in Northampton . |
| 3 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 4 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 5 | In 1988 , customers , so cheesed off with the Line 's service , staged the famous so-called ‘ battle of Finchley Central , ’ occupying a train after an all-too-common announcement that it was to be diverted to Mill Hill East instead of ‘ speeding ’ to its original destination of High Barnet . |
| 6 | Then he came in er sort of right at the end said , well look , I 'm so cheesed off with you lot |
| 7 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 8 | Willie had already helped paint the scenery but had been asked to take over as prompter when Matthew Browne had been suddenly whisked off to boarding school . |
| 9 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 10 | But that 's where they 've all skipped off to . |
| 11 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 12 | But if Montini was so indispensable in the later stages of the pontificate of Pius XII , why was he suddenly packed off to Milan without the cardinal 's hat that routinely went with the office ? |
| 13 | But it was suddenly called off with just a week to go . |
| 14 | On the morning of the ceremony , Olivia , the mali , Balvinder Singh and myself all set off to Village Shahpur Jat in Mr Singh 's taxi . |
| 15 | When the biggest set of the day came through , well over thirty feet but still well-formed , Doerner , Foo , and Bradshaw all set off in pursuit . |
| 16 | For example , my 10-year-old cupressus was busy stifling a display of daffodils , nicely set off by purple aubrieta . |
| 17 | He got the pleasure of farming , and the losses were merely set off against er |
| 18 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 19 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 20 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 21 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 22 | They 're looking for the womankind who have all gone off with the Romans . |
| 23 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 24 | we were going yo he 's not in , came in the Tuesday the reason I was off yesterday was cos I was so fucked off with your test , but he did n't say fucked off |
| 25 | She was not fooled for an instant nor so cut off from news that she had not heard that war was in the air again . |
| 26 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 27 | There is an increasing number of young inmates so cut off from their feelings that they have no fear and no sense of compassion . |
| 28 | Although Coda has offered AS/400 software since the box was launched in 1988 , Turner says that sales have only taken off over the past two years , and it is now the group 's fastest-growing market . |
| 29 | Swiss housewives rejected this appeal , apparently put off by the idea of being replaced in their homes by machines . |
| 30 | Mark I feel the same , extremely pissed off at Wilko . |