Example sentences of "[been] [verb] off in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 2 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Since p1 and qi have already been paired off in the appropriate manner ( i.e. they are equal ! ) we find that unc is not a nasty integer after all . |
| 7 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |