Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] off in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |
| 2 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 3 | His dog tags had been blown off in the blast and the head wound had severely damaged his memory so that no one had any idea of his identity . |
| 4 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 6 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 7 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |