Example sentences of "was [vb pp] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute .
6 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 .
7 The plan was called off at the last moment .
8 However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire .
9 But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 .
10 The strike was called off on the following day .
11 The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital .
12 The whole collection was set off by the saxe-blue Jacobean embroidery thrown over the shelves on which the pieces were carefully arranged .
13 ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’
14 Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road .
15 Each table was cut off from the next by screens of greenery ; even so , from where he sat he had a view of what was happening at other tables and on other levels .
16 One version is that the route was cut off by the rising tide ; the Welsh swooped , and drove the English into the sea .
17 He was carted off to the Scottish Military Hospital in Alexandria , while the remainder of the group made a second jump the following day without any further serious mishaps .
18 The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half .
19 Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired .
20 The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station .
21 Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages .
22 Barry Butler , who was stretchered off in the 2-1 Deva Stadium win over Brighton , yesterday had Xrays on his injured ankle .
23 Likewise , Minton 's huge harbour scene , returned from the Lefevre , was sent off to the Royal Academy 's 1949 Summer Exhibition where it attracted the ridicule of Sir Alfred Munnings .
24 As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali .
25 In a game against Aberdeen , he was sent off for the 13th time in his career for fouling John McMaster , and the Pittodrie player was taken to hospital with neck injuries .
26 When Bud moved south to West Bromwich Albion in 1976 , he found himself in a deep trouble after a game against Brighton , when he was sent off for the unpardonable offence of kicking a referee .
27 Second-row Jackson was sent off for the first time in his career along with South Wales Police hooker Colin Hillman after the two were caught wrestling off the ball .
28 GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee .
29 Jones , who was sent off for the sixth time in a five-year career against Blackburn on his Wimbledon return two weeks ago , hosts a controversial video that makes heroes of men of great skill who play to hurt and unveils a code that includes :
30 Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible .
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