Example sentences of "be [verb] off [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another notable seizure made by Vigilant was as a result of an operation in 1969 , initiated by the Investigation Branch who had been tipped off by their Dutch colleagues that a suspected smuggling vessel had left Flushing bound for the Kent coast . |
| 2 | Trees and cultivation are fenced off against their hungry assaults . |
| 3 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 4 | This deprives the zooxanthellae in their tissues of oxygen , light and food and they quickly die and are cast off by their invertebrate host . |
| 5 | Two more sections of the world-famous Dowty Group are being sold off by their new parent company . |
| 6 | In order to overcome this blockade — which meant that the Berlin zones controlled by America , Britain and France , were cut off from their normal supply routes — a massive ‘ Air-lift ’ was organised by the three Allies , even coal was transported by air ! |
| 7 | This sense of inherited destiny could be especially powerful for those who were cut off from their real parents . |
| 8 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 9 | It must be said that because , traditionally , psychology comes from a denial of spirit whoever goes into the process is cut off from their own light . |
| 10 | At this point the first contingent of Bachad children was sent off to their own training centre , Gwrych Castle , in Wales . |
| 11 | POMPEY boss Jim Smith branded striker Paul Walsh ‘ stupid ’ after he was sent off in their ill-tempered Anglo-Italian Cup tie victory at Fratton Park last night . |