Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [prep] [art] first " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 2 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 3 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 4 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 5 | Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball . |
| 6 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |