Example sentences of "was [vb pp] off [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 2 | Her husband , who has been ill recently , was hustled off to a chair in the corner . |
| 3 | Rowledge sliced a penalty wide of the target before having better luck with a kick just inside the half-way line , and there was a real setback for the visitors when Cook was carried off with a leg injury . |
| 4 | Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury . |
| 5 | Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes . |
| 6 | Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off . |
| 7 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 8 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 9 | Batty , who was carried off after a tackle by Stewart Robson , added : ‘ I am just relieved I have n't broken it . ’ |
| 10 | For example , emotional problems are often presented as justification for a person 's drunkenness , especially if they are female , and on one occasion a youth who had been involved in an accident but who had only just passed his driving test was let off with a caution by a policewoman in sympathy for his inexperience . |
| 11 | Fortunately , his employer was lenient and he was let off with a caution . |
| 12 | and he was fobbed off with an under-secretaryship ; in 1922 he worked actively to bring the coalition down . |
| 13 | When Otis Griffith 's car was written off in an accident , he was able to relax and let someone else fight his legal battle for compensation , thanks to a little preplanning |
| 14 | The Cessna 310 used by FLYER magazine was written off in an accident on landing in December . |
| 15 | It 's only 3 months since her car was written off in an accident on the A34 in Oxfordshire ; an accident in which she was lucky to escape with her life . |
| 16 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 17 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 18 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 19 | A WIDOW whose arm was bitten off by an alligator said yesterday she was sorry the creature was later killed . |
| 20 | Foulds went off 15 minutes later with a neck injury and No 8 Brooks was helped off with a leg injury shortly afterwards . |
| 21 | The reason there is not a report is that Coun Terrans 's jump was called off for a day , perhaps because parchute jumps and mid-air collisions , even of a mock variety , are not a good match . |
| 22 | On the screen a taker of LSD , the Vision-of-Hell-drug , was borne off on a stretcher , after having hallucinated he could fly . |
| 23 | The prosecution alleged the teenager was driven off in a car and threatened with drowning in a lake unless he gave them information about the burglary . |
| 24 | His body was wheeled off in a peat barrow and cremated in the local brick kiln . |
| 25 | The Day was rounded off with a programme of display items from a variety of teams , including class teams , the National Display Team and our special 55+ team — for them the day was a successful dress rehearsal for their performance at the Age Concern Festival at the Royal Albert Hall the following week . |
| 26 | The event was rounded off with a showing of Wimpey 's Employee Report Video and drinks in the social club . |
| 27 | Her wish was granted and her supersonic trip was rounded off with a stay in the famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel . |
| 28 | The day was rounded off with a picnic and the purchase of commemorative T-shirts . |
| 29 | A full day , which also included a significant meeting with the president of Ecopetrol , the Colombian state oil company , and the Minister for Mines and Energy , was rounded off with an evening of entertainment produced and performed by LASMO Colombia staff . |
| 30 | In effect the process of consultation and decision was cut off at a point where the situation was changing rapidly and when the leading contenders for office had in fact agreed to express their willingness to serve under Mr R. A. Butler . |