Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no ‘ mass audience ’ of uncritical couch potatoes ready to be fobbed off with any old rubbish . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean I 'm suddenly going to be whisked off to some other dimension ? |
| 3 | According to reports in some of the more scurrilous publications , the young American was deeply turned off by this close encounter with the ‘ world 's sexiest female ’ as Kylie has been voted in many teen surveys . |
| 4 | No gallivanting about privateering , and getting my head shot off by some greasy Spaniard . " |
| 5 | Fans clutch at the wire like prisoners until snarled off by these four-legged automatons . |
| 6 | A rumour circulates and someone is shuffled off to some distant department . |
| 7 | Time and time again your average punter gets ripped off by some incompetent half-wit whose main aim seems to be to sell as many boxes as he or she can . |
| 8 | Frightened off by such high figures , many collectors renounce the attempt to assemble a complete range of bindings over the centuries and , sensibly , turn to more limited fields ; for example , to books stamped with the coats of arms or crests of early owners in gilt or ‘ blind ’ ( without gold or colour ) . |
| 9 | I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension . |
| 10 | The attacks came without warning and did n't seem to be set off by any direct thought about being moved . |
| 11 | His pleading was cut off by another painful jab of the gun muzzle and by the snarling , thick voice from behind him . |
| 12 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 13 | In 1954 , he was cut off from all classified material because of earlier association with Communists — who included his own brother . |
| 14 | If Balbinder was bussed to Cedars every day she would be effectively cut off from any real involvement in her children 's schooling , and from an important part of her own role within the community as the mother of a young child at the local school . |
| 15 | As a result of this change I was ‘ promoted ’ chairman and virtually cut off from any effective direction of the company . |
| 16 | His eyes were cut off from any outside flow , angry , as if two parts of his mind were fighting . |
| 17 | She may have wandered off into some terrible danger or other . ’ |
| 18 | At Christmas 1910 , the committee gave permission for the women to go out to the pantomime at the kind invitation of a lady of the town , and — possibly put off by some unrecorded experiences in the previous year — they recommended that no eggs be pickled that season . |
| 19 | But do n't be put off by any early setbacks because some simple experimentation will soon determine the best way of producing boards with this technique . |
| 20 | Deep down , he knew that she would be put off by any direct approach . |
| 21 | Scepticism can be a lazy belief , and we should not allow our train of thinking to be shunted off into this old siding . |
| 22 | I am pissed off with that bleeding golf as well ! |
| 23 | has got to be taken off at some other time erm |
| 24 | in my view thrown off without any reasonable excuse , because I felt that I could bring a lot of expertise to the health authority . |
| 25 | Similar variations of chopping behaviour with rotor position occur at other current levels , so instead of monitoring chopping in an excited phase it can be convenient to excite , at a very low current level , a phase which would normally be switched off at any particular time . |
| 26 | erm and I 've sent off for some loose fitting ones |