Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] off [prep] the " 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 | When Dr Solomon is happy that he 's got your ailment sussed , you 're whisked off to the diseases database . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , she 's pissed off with the boy for a cultural break . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 're cut off from the reality of what 's happening in the Cities . |
| 16 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 17 | In the few moments they stood looking at each other , both were acutely aware they were cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 21 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 22 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 23 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 24 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 25 | Me being carted off with the sirens going would just about put my street cred in overdraft . |
| 26 | It is cut off from the world by a level crossing which the Labour candidate , the genial Ralph Knight , another adopted Lancastrian , admits made him nervous when he first ventured over it . |
| 27 | However , in another , crucial sense it is closed off from the world . |
| 28 | ( He is put off by the sight of Wayne , who is pogoing furiously behind his keyboards , like someone at a Members gig in 1978 ) Erm , excuse me , but what do you think you 're doing ? |
| 29 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 30 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |