Example sentences of "[verb] been off " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Anybody could 've gone outside and pulled a plug out of the wall and the show would 've been off the air A lot of people probably wish they had . ’ |
| 2 | He had an accident at work and has been off work for two weeks . |
| 3 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 4 | Ladbrokes had quoted Jenny Pitman 's gelding , who has been off the course for over two and a half years , at 33-1 but have now scratched him from their list . |
| 5 | Trainer Peter Beaumont is keen to get a run into the seven-year-old who has been off the track since narrowly going down to 40-1 shock winner Sibton Abbey last month . |
| 6 | Granville Again , an unlucky faller when poised to deliver his challenge in the race 12 months ago , has been off the track since he finished eight lengths third behind Mighty Mogul at Kempton over Christmas . |
| 7 | Hitachi Ltd , one of HP 's PA-RISC wins , has been off developing its own proprietary 32-bit RISC chip for embedded applications : it should start sampling later this year . |
| 8 | Mountain Crash has been off the course since his Cottenham run , but may reappear in the Ladies ' Open , in which recent winners Easy Over , Royal Sting , Shedid and Takeover Bid are among a good entry . |
| 9 | Although the total retail trading area is unchanged at the period end there are in fact two different underlying elements new footage has been laid down in France but this has been off set by a net reduction in the retail trading area in the U K. The sales per square foot which excludes retail sales and is based on the waiting average trading area shows an increase of seven point two percent A low margin of fifty five point six per cent was down from fifty eight point five per cent in the same period last this , this was mainly due to a drop in in-house manufacturing participation and adverse exchange rates . |
| 10 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 11 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 12 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 13 | Tidal experts agreed that the body could not have been off Pilsey Island for more than 24 hours . |
| 14 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 15 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 16 | She had forgotten how fast he could move — he must have been off Chalon in seconds — but as soon as he hauled her to her feet Isabel began to struggle , swinging her free arm up . |
| 17 | If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago . |
| 18 | Anyway the workload gradually increased until I found I could n't continue any longer and have been off work for the last six months . |
| 19 | ‘ If they had not arrived by Wednesday lunchtime , I 'd have been off home , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Jes said , I thought you 'd have been off rest of week . |
| 21 | But then I put two pounds , which should have been off Linda 's . |
| 22 | Having been off all winter , we are now on the long road back to full fitness , and my main worry , having recently started trotting , is finding somewhere where the going is n't too hard . |
| 23 | The Schimmel sale was a perfect opening for the nervous novice , as the works were fresh , having been off the market for decades , familiar from exhibitions and publications , and generally trouble-free . |
| 24 | She had been off work for several days and Lovebird had kept her in bed and fed her chicken soup from the stove . |
| 25 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 26 | The last occasion he had parachuted into the sea , at night , operationally , had been off South Georgia . |
| 27 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 28 | Both pilots had been off duty for a period of approximately thirty-five hours prior to the trans-Atlantic flight and had flown a total of just over seven hours on the day of the accident . |
| 29 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 30 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |