Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 2 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | She had been off work for several days and Lovebird had kept her in bed and fed her chicken soup from the stove . |
| 5 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 6 | The last occasion he had parachuted into the sea , at night , operationally , had been off South Georgia . |
| 7 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 10 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We caught Kenny after he had been off the road and were worried that he was going to hold us up because we knew Nolan was catching up quickly , ’ explains Dean . |
| 13 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 14 | Glaisdale almost certainly needed that outing for he had been off the course for more than three months . |
| 15 | The ceremony meant an unscheduled return to work for Christine as she had been off work with a broken hip , but was well on the way to recovery and set for a New Year return . |