Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 7 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 8 | But she was trotting off to the churchyard to clean the stone the other day . |
| 9 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 10 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |
| 11 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |
| 12 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 13 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 14 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 15 | In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries . |
| 16 | When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee . |
| 17 | He experienced the joy of scoring Omagh 's first two goals in the opening period but had the opposite feelings of emotion when he was sent off in the last minute . |
| 18 | Mike Marsh became the third Anfield star to be shown the red card in successive European Cup Winners ' Cup matches when he was sent off in the closing stages of the defeat against Spartak Moscow on Wednesday . |
| 19 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 20 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 21 | He was carted off to the Scottish Military Hospital in Alexandria , while the remainder of the group made a second jump the following day without any further serious mishaps . |
| 22 | Then he was striding off towards the design-room , a subdued and anxious Lisa at his heels . |
| 23 | He was brought off before the end of a rare defeat and the emotional scars were apparent for weeks after that . |
| 24 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |