Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 2 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 3 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction . |
| 6 | Referee Alf Buksh ignores the crowd 's calls for Hughes to be sent off after a 69th minute foul . |
| 7 | ‘ You can see that the plant account has been ruled off at the thirty-first of March 1894 . |
| 8 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 9 | Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute . |
| 10 | Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute . |
| 11 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 12 | I can recall on one occasion the league programme being snowed off on the fifth Saturday in March . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | hello there … today we 've come east to the far east for our Central South sport … we 're in Nepal with some local pioneers who are setting off on the first ever Kathmandu marathon … before we run we have join our football parade … |
| 17 | They were guilty of lax marking as Scunthorpe took the lead from two crosses aimed without challenge , and weakened by Baker 's sending off in the 36th minute , a pathetic flourish of petulance . |
| 18 | Bruce Grobbelaar 's sending off in the last ten minutes in the Moscow first leg ultimately proved decisive . |
| 19 | This is the life down on the Copacobana beach in Rio … sun shining … waves crashing in on the sand … and its here that Liz Macdonald from Gloucester is setting off on the second leg of the British Steel Challenge … she 's on board the Nuclear Electric yacht … from Rio they round Cape Horn and head for Hobart … they 'll be racing for six weeks … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 23 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 24 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 25 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 26 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 27 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels . |
| 30 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |