Example sentences of "were [adv] [vb pp] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 2 | Permanent arrears were normally written off at a bishop 's death , so the figures give some indication of the rate at which they accumulated . |
| 3 | Police in Cam gave chase for a short distance but were easily shaken off by the robbers stolen Sierra Cosworth . |
| 4 | Those people who went along to hear you play ‘ Heart Of Gold ’ on the ‘ Weld ’ tour got a blast of Sonic Youth , liberal idealists were shocked by your Reagan-supporting stance in the mid-'80s , your newly-won reactionary followers were soundly ticked off with the capitalist lambasting of ‘ Freedom ’ at the close of the decade … |
| 5 | By the nineteenth century , middle- and upper-class women were increasingly cut off from the world of production , while some working-class women regained a limited role in production outside the home . |
| 6 | His thoughts were abruptly cut off by a blinding flash of pain . |
| 7 | After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 8 | They were then sent off towards the enemy , running panic-stricken this way and that , and in the process spreading the poisonous fumes . |