Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 2 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 3 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 4 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 5 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 6 | A fire broke out in her ammunition hold and the crew were taken off by an attendant destroyer . |
| 7 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 8 | For a long time the Drus were passed off as a mere shoulder of the greater Aiguille Verte . |
| 9 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 10 | At length the big green truck arrived and we were bumping off to an anxious reception from Mrs. Anxious about her fragile porcelain , I should say . |
| 11 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 12 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 13 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 14 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 15 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 16 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 17 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 18 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 19 | The sensible thing to do , having made the initial impact , was to walk off in a slow and menacing way , leaving Quigley to gibber . |
| 20 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 21 | Amidst declining opportunities for casual work , the unrest was sparked off by a local government decision to end an emergency aid programme . |
| 22 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 23 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 24 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 25 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 26 | Humphreys was hoisted off into a private room and blows were exchanged behind closed doors . |
| 27 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 28 | Later , he delivered the first of his high-tech rallies with a punchy speech and the evening was rounded off with a five-point lead in an opinion poll . |
| 29 | Our first day on Martinque was rounded off with a great beach party with music provided by a local band . |
| 30 | What I did in the circumstances was go off into an Ollieish riff about je ne sais quoi , keeping Stu achortle without waking the fair Gillian . |