Example sentences of "[vb pp] off in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 2 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 3 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 4 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 5 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 6 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 7 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 8 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 9 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 10 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 11 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 12 | Since p1 and qi have already been paired off in the appropriate manner ( i.e. they are equal ! ) we find that unc is not a nasty integer after all . |
| 13 | The pension is recently built , but is finished off in the traditional style . |
| 14 | The mare will look after the foal until he 's at least five weeks old and then he 'll be weaned off in the natural way . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 17 | Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park . |
| 18 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 19 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 20 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |
| 21 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 22 | Julian Dicks , the West Ham captain , was sent off in the 61st minute for a late tackle on Wise and the referee , Alf Buksh , needed a police escort at the end of the tie , which West Ham won 1-0 . |
| 23 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 24 | Ferguson became the first player to be sent off in the six-year reign of Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Daniel Amokachi , of Bruges , was sent off in the 77th minute for a foul on Bremen goalkeeper Oliver Reck . |
| 27 | Another Dublin player Keith Barr has been suspended for a month — he too was sent off in the National League . |
| 28 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
| 29 | That does not suit every executive , particularly as the growth in profits has levelled off in the second half of this year . |
| 30 | ‘ Speaking generally , ’ Bray wrote in Boy Labour and Apprenticeship ( 1911 ) , ‘ the city-bred youth is growing up in a state of unrestrained liberty ’ , and describing how ‘ the habits of school and home are rapidly sloughed off in the new life of irresponsible freedom ’ he agreed that ‘ the large amount of money he has to spend on himself is by no means an unmixed benefit ’ . |