Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am cut off at the waist for ever . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I be dropped off at the airport ? ’ she was glad to ask as the signs came up . |
| 3 | Really British , I 'm pissed off about the European passports |
| 4 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 5 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 6 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 7 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 8 | I had more luck with partners this time — I was paired off with an older girl who I got along with fine , and we readied ourselves to go out . |
| 9 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , she 's pissed off with the boy for a cultural break . ’ |
| 11 | Having performed a healing miracle , she is packed off to a remote convent . |
| 12 | Casting an agonised glance of appeal at Ludovico , who failed to notice it , she was led off along the terrace , away from the tables and chairs . |
| 13 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 14 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 15 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 16 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 17 | Injection pipettes are made in exactly the same way as holding pipettes except that they are broken off at a smaller internal diameter . |
| 18 | More crudely , they are written off as a rampaging mob , victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators . |
| 19 | The dog seems anxious to get the harness on ; indeed , all through the trip the dogs are always keen to pull and seem miserable when they are tied off for the night . |
| 20 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 21 | They are hauled off to a depot , to await their turn to be processed . |
| 22 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 23 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 24 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 25 | The loss of innocence marred their communion with the divine love , and terror entered their hearts as they were cast off from the sustaining life of God . |
| 26 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 27 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 28 | Rex followed Laura into the cab which was becoming their second home and they were driven off into A Night of Danger . |
| 29 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 30 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |