Example sentences of "were [verb] off in [art] [adj] " 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 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 3 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 4 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 5 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 6 | 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 . |