Example sentences of "be [verb] off with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 2 | This may have to be sawn off with a junior hacksaw if it has rusted in place |
| 3 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 4 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This can result in buyers waiting months for the goods to arrive or being fobbed off with a different machine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Reduced to ten men after captain Eric Caldow had been stretchered off with a broken leg , Scotland had just defeated England , and the flamboyant Baxter , an irrepressible rogue in a dark blue jersey had scored both goals . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The programme is rounded off with a two-day visit to the Frankfurt Book Fair . |
| 11 | The group is rounded off with a two-page grammar summary and accompanying set of exercises . |
| 12 | All this is rounded off with a graphical front-end which makes DOS feel like Windows . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 15 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 16 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 17 | Later , he delivered the first of his high-tech rallies with a punchy speech and the evening was rounded off with a five-point lead in an opinion poll . |
| 18 | Our first day on Martinque was rounded off with a great beach party with music provided by a local band . |
| 19 | Remember that season was started off with a freak result vs Newcastle . |
| 20 | Stepped-down wings extended on each side and the whole was finished off with an elegant domed lantern . |
| 21 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 22 | But Ward was stretchered off with a broken leg after a challenge by Mark Atkins , who was booked for the tackle . |