Example sentences of "been [vb pp] off and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 2 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 3 | Being expensive to maintain and run , they have been sold off and the incumbent now often finds himself in a small modern house , undoubtedly warmer and more convenient , but usually without character and , tellingly , without social status . |
| 4 | In one corner of the rectangular office a television set had not been switched off and the title sequence of a forgotten film from the seventies flickered silently on the screen . |
| 5 | The lake is on the edge of the National Park and , like many of the accessible Pyrenean lakes , part of the vast hydroelectric network of the region , which may mean that by late summer , if it has been dry down below , the waters have been piped off and the lake has shrunk . |