Example sentences of "[being] [verb] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 2 | Britain 's biggest manufacturer of compact discs has denied accusations that music lovers are being ripped off over the cost . |
| 3 | Despite dire tales of distribution being ripped off outside the paper , figures of 50,000 sales were being quoted , and 40,000 was probably being touched . |
| 4 | It follows that the volume in which the fire occurs should be capable of being partitioned off from the rest of the storage , if the agent is to be used effectively and cheaply . |
| 5 | The wife of the chief coiner however , being tipped off about the search had the stack of coins , the moulds and other equipment thrown into Rusland Pool . " |
| 6 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 7 | The fireworks were being let off on the ramparts of the castle . |
| 8 | It was the perfect response from Mike Walker 's side after Saturday 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon which once again saw the East Anglians being written off in the title stakes . |
| 9 | In order to stop the printer echo being turned off at the end of the CLI command file , the CLI is suspended with the " . |
| 10 | The crew of the Arun and Mersey class lifeboats are pictured ready to Poole Quay on 23 May 1991 and being seen off by the director , Brian Miles ( centre ) flanked by the two coxswains , Staff Coxswain Mike Houchen ( right ) and divisional inspector Les Vipond ( left ) . |
| 11 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 12 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 13 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 14 | At this point the stunt that was being pulled off in the music found its visual equivalent rising to meet it . |
| 15 | She was last seen being driven off in the passenger seat of a red hatchback . |
| 16 | We are being swept off to the right , towards a giant chunk of basalt in the river , and despite Sam 's frenzied efforts at the oars , we bounce into it . |
| 17 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 18 | Except for those few unhappy souls who have so lost their emotional capacities that they are grateful to have all choice removed from their lives , each person who hears the prison door clang feels a desolation at being cut off from the life of the world and from those they love . |
| 19 | with , with posh people , if th if they were being pissed off by the fact that you did n't reply to the invitation properly then he 's a dickhead . |
| 20 | So it 's fitting that his collection of fishing tackle is being auctioned off in the town tomorrow . |
| 21 | The project is to be paid for with a tailor-made $29m World Bank loan , which is scheduled to be approved by the Hungarian government later this month , before being signed off by the bank . |
| 22 | Me being carted off with the sirens going would just about put my street cred in overdraft . |
| 23 | The continuing need to demonstrate self control results in all lesser activities being put off for the time-being . |
| 24 | Sybillin had been foot perfect up to that point and , far from being put off by the drama around him , flew the remaining fences to come home 10 lengths clear of Knight 's Spur . |
| 25 | This custom continued , the telegram being sent off on the morning of the shoot and the telegram of thanks being read out at lunch . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , Rangers will find out this morning if Mark Hateley is to miss any more than the one game , against Marseille , that will be his automatic punishment for being sent off in the match with FC Brugge . |
| 27 | Shoppers who were increasingly being scared off by the threat of town-centre misbehaviour and the fear of visiting football crowds , are flocking back under the watchful gaze of the cameras , which are monitored 24 hours a day by an Airdrie police team . |