Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 2 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 3 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 4 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 5 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 6 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 8 | The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death . |
| 9 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 10 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 11 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 12 | Containers and freight , craned down on to the raft from the deck of the LSL , would be lifted off by the giant Fiat Allis fork-lift trucks . |
| 13 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 14 | BAe could end up with only 25 p.c. in the operation , which is being hived off into a new company , Corporate Jets . |
| 15 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 16 | That might mean Lewis being fobbed off with a further promise of a title fight sometime in the next year or two , though he insists : ‘ I 'll fight this in the courts . |
| 17 | This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 18 | This can result in buyers waiting for months for the goods to arrive or not getting them at all and being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 19 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 20 | Where part of a building is let off as a separate factory the landlord will be responsible for providing and maintaining in efficient working order and good repair sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory ( Factories Act 1961 , s7(1) , s122 ) . |
| 21 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 22 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 23 | But in that case the very idea of the postman 's work occurring in isolation is incoherent since , as a matter of logic , it can not be separated off from a whole range of activities beyond itself . |
| 24 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 25 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 26 | Miserably aware that the evening had lurched off to a regrettable start , Shannon fell into step beside him , irritated still further when she caught the receptionist 's knowing smirk at the sight of them walking out together . |
| 27 | After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 28 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 29 | Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time . |
| 30 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |