Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come holiday time , Stanley closed the school and was off north quicker than you could say algebra . |
| 2 | Despite the amusement such indigenes provided , the months at anchor in so depressing a place wore on Magellan , and by late August he was off south again with the four ships that remained . |
| 3 | Road , he lived in Road which was off Lane and erm what was the other one ? |
| 4 | As 50 per cent of the mileage was off road , I am rather disgusted . |
| 5 | He was off work for nine days . |
| 6 | In any event , Heinz was off work for two months before embarking on a steady descent of menial jobs , ending up as a kitchen cleaner . |
| 7 | Jamie was off work for three days while his bike was patched up . |
| 8 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 9 | As a result of injury he was off work for 31 weeks . |
| 10 | She broke her wrist and was off work for 4 weeks . |
| 11 | The driver of the van which he hit Stephen Whitehead , a self-employed glazier and joiner was off work for six weeks after the accident . |
| 12 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 13 | The reason I am interested is that at that time I was off work for six months and I suspected I had the illness . |
| 14 | Health and Safety Executive representative Neil Anderson said Peter McKay was working on a cutting machine when his glove became entangled with a rotating bar he broke two bones in his left hand and was off work for six weeks . |
| 15 | With her dad , daddy was off work today down there |
| 16 | I du n no if Elliott were , but he was off work about a week so |
| 17 | The US government said that it was very concerned about the incident , denying Peruvian claims that the aircraft , en route to Panama , was off course . |
| 18 | I was off watch , sleeping forward , as was Ron Gibbs , my watchmate . |
| 19 | For a fraction of a second Jane was off guard and the shearwater struck right in the palm of her hand . |
| 20 | He was off school quite often with headaches . |
| 21 | Then Clare was off school sick with flu . |
| 22 | ‘ Morrissey was off school that day , ’ remembers Bob Manc , now a plumber . |
| 23 | But unfortunately I was off school on March the twelfth so I missed the party and everything . |
| 24 | You said he was off colour ? ’ |
| 25 | He was off target with four penalty attempts and it was his mistake that presented Malone with the second of their two tries . |
| 26 | He was off duty , I was told . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought he was off duty . ’ |
| 28 | Thomas Hewett was off duty and having a quiet glass of stout and a chinwag on his front doorstep . |
| 29 | She used to sit by my bed for hours when she was off duty . |
| 30 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |