Example sentences of "was [verb] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 2 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 3 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 4 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 5 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 6 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 7 | The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire . |
| 8 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 9 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 10 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 11 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 12 | Our concern about police investigations was sparked off by the realisation that the trial is not an adequate tool for testing their reliability , which in turn disqualifies the trial as a verifying test . |
| 13 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |
| 14 | ‘ It was ’ , he would read , ‘ inevitable that the Solidarity revolution was sparked off by the Gdansk shipyard workers . |
| 15 | The crisis was sparked off by the arrest and dismissal on Feb. 19 of three Council members , namely Col. Thaabe Letsie , Lt.-Col. Joshua Sekhobe Letsie ( both cousins of the King ) and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , and of the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications , Maj. Philip Moyani Mokhanto . |
| 16 | The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption . |
| 17 | The surplus population of England , especially that of the Home Counties and the Midlands , was siphoned off to the capital . |
| 18 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 19 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 20 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 21 | To protect the scene , the park was closed off to the public for much of the day but has since been re-opened . |
| 22 | A weak sun was rising off to the east over the distant buildings and its pale light was filtering through the branches of the trees about him . |
| 23 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 24 | After having lost over fourteen hours to the weather , the game was called off with the score at 227 for 6 declared , and a series that had promised so much with its exciting start fizzled out meaninglessly , with almost seven of the twenty-five playing days lost . |
| 25 | It was called off after the principal , Dr David Kennedy sent a confidential letter to Mrs Falconer . |
| 26 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 27 | Maidstone Town 's future was thrown into further doubt last night when their Third Division game at Scunthorpe tomorrow was called off by the Football League . |
| 28 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 29 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 30 | The earlier student strike , in April , was set off by the dismissal of law teacher Dominic Mngomezulu , which students believed was due to his union activities . |