Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | While people may even find themselves avoiding others who would be understanding , precisely because their concern may threaten to breach fragile defences and bring on the ‘ crack-up ’ that feels as if it is only just being fended off , as it is . |
| 2 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 3 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 4 | It seems daft to have to send to America to buy a British product , but that is what I have done , because I am tired of being ripped off by every Tom , Dick and Harry . |
| 5 | → We all hate being ripped off and the law tries to recognise that . |
| 6 | It has also angered Britain 's farmers who reckon they are being ripped off . |
| 7 | The law protects tenants from being ripped off by rack-rent thugs . |
| 8 | ‘ Fans are being ripped off , ’ says Sue Harvey , editor of Check-It-Out magazine , a new magazine for youngsters . |
| 9 | ‘ If they think they are being ripped off , the new strips wo n't sell . ’ |
| 10 | Are CD buyers being ripped off ? |
| 11 | Are they aware that the layouts produced by ZZAP ! are constantly being ripped off and copied by at least 40% of all other mag 's on the shelves ? ! |
| 12 | ‘ The kids are being ripped off , ’ he told us . |
| 13 | Despite dire tales of distribution being ripped off outside the paper , figures of 50,000 sales were being quoted , and 40,000 was probably being touched . |
| 14 | Shareholders need to be told enough to judge if they are being ripped off |
| 15 | ‘ The kids are being ripped off , ’ he told us . |
| 16 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of compact discs has denied accusations that music lovers are being ripped off over the cost . |
| 17 | And unfortunately , unscrupulous landlords that are actually benefiting from this , and in a lot of cases , it 's not , people , people are n't paying , necessarily paying this rent out of their wages , it 's actually the poll tax payer who is paying these rents , er through housing benefit , and I think we should all be aware of the way in which we collectively are being ripped off |
| 18 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 19 | It follows that the volume in which the fire occurs should be capable of being partitioned off from the rest of the storage , if the agent is to be used effectively and cheaply . |
| 20 | Instead of mounting sheet and halyard tail bags on he upstands of the cockpit el , where they are vulnerable to being torn off , they are recessed beneath the cockpit seats . |
| 21 | The wife of the chief coiner however , being tipped off about the search had the stack of coins , the moulds and other equipment thrown into Rusland Pool . " |
| 22 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 23 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 24 | There is a radioactive process — beta decay — which enables one of the protons to shed its charge , in effect becoming a neutron at the instant of fusing ( the electrical charge being carried off by a positively charged form of the electron , known as a positron ) , the proton and neutron fusing to make a deuteron and liberating energy . |
| 25 | Now she was being carried off . |
| 26 | The bishop of Carlisle was so impoverished by Scottish raids — his goods being carried off and his fields left uncultivated — that he petitioned the pope for licence to appropriate Horncastle church , in Lincoln diocese , for his relief . |
| 27 | DUNGANNON 'S Ulster scrum-half Ashley Blair could miss his side 's All-Ireland League opener in a fortnight after being carried off during yesterday 's 36-6 friendly victory over Highfield at Stevenson Park . |
| 28 | Sir Roy Watts , the Chairman of Thames Water , has gone missing after being dropped off at his flat in London . |
| 29 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 30 | That might mean Lewis being fobbed off with a further promise of a title fight sometime in the next year or two , though he insists : ‘ I 'll fight this in the courts . |