Example sentences of "was [verb] off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 4 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 5 | He was carried off after a fifty fifty tackle with Stuart McCall . |
| 6 | Ratcliffe , who is in the Welsh squad for next week 's World Cup qualifier against The Netherlands was carried off after a fifth-minute collision with Geoff Pike . |
| 7 | The last time a defending champion lost as early as the second round of the US Open was in 1989 when Mats Wilander was picked off by a young Pete Sampras . |
| 8 | An area of cleared moor was cordoned off with a wind-powered electric fence to allow heather regrowth , a method which could be repeated elsewhere ; next year 's plans for the estate , five miles north of Pateley Bridge , include protecting and encouraging the spread of bilberry , the indigenous upland plant which disappeared from large tracts of moor when bracken moved in . |
| 9 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 10 | The sensible thing to do , having made the initial impact , was to walk off in a slow and menacing way , leaving Quigley to gibber . |
| 11 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 12 | Amidst declining opportunities for casual work , the unrest was sparked off by a local government decision to end an emergency aid programme . |
| 13 | A former 3rd Farnham scout was heading off with the Falklands-bound Navy task force as one of the mechanics servicing the Harrier jump-jets aboard HMS Hermes . |
| 14 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 15 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 22 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 23 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 24 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 25 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 26 | But ten minutes later , as Frau Nordern was drifting off into an uneasy slumber , Herr Nordern was still at his desk , staring into the darkness , the end of his cigar glowing like a red warning signal as the snow drifted down on to Berlin , and his family , and the city , slept . |
| 27 | Morse was conscious that his mind was drifting off into an interesting avenue of thought , but also that he was drifting off to sleep , as well . |
| 28 | Humphreys was hoisted off into a private room and blows were exchanged behind closed doors . |
| 29 | Sophia herself was wearing a green jersey suit and a small hat , but she felt that she did not look so absolutely right as Ianthe , whose plain blue woollen dress was set off by a feather-trimmed hat which had just the right touch of slightly dowdy elegance — if there could be such a thing . |
| 30 | The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged . |