Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] [vb pp] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | But her words were cut off , his mouth capturing hers , denying its freedom of speech . |
| 2 | . ’ Her words were cut off when his mouth covered hers , but when she clawed at him , one of his hands caught her wrists and held them and in a voice such as he had never used before , a deep moaning voice , he said , ‘ It 'll be all right . |
| 3 | ‘ And then he 'll ask why I 'm not there … ’ he began , but the words were choked off . |
| 4 | The words were broken off abruptly when the man saw Isabel sharing the saddle with fitzAlan . |
| 5 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 6 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 7 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 8 | His broad shoulders and powerful legs were set off to perfection by the excellent cut , while a snow-white silk shirt emphasised his tanned , rugged face . |
| 9 | ( Its position at the front of the volume was later regretted by Wordsworth as some readers were put off . ) |
| 10 | The site offices were taken off on 18 November . |
| 11 | Diplomatic relations were restored with Nicaragua on Feb. 25 , 10 years after bilateral ties were broken off . |
| 12 | All these prints , indeed , were under- or over-exposed , with their subjects askew ; heads were chopped off , feet and hands loomed giant in the foregrounds . |
| 13 | ‘ Their heads were bitten off , ’ said Lee as they went into Philip 's bedroom . |
| 14 | When he died , the funds were cut off . |
| 15 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 16 | And seven new Peugeot cars were driven off from the Central African Motor Services : two were never found . |
| 17 | His eyes were cut off from any outside flow , angry , as if two parts of his mind were fighting . |
| 18 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 19 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 20 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |
| 21 | But in 1986 the brakes were taken off , and in the twelve months ending in December of that year the money supply was allowed to rise by 109 per cent . |
| 22 | Perhaps that 's why his shoes were taken off . |
| 23 | This was a blow to the defenders of orthodoxy , who had to stand by while refugee children from Jewish urban areas were shunted off to largely Christian rural areas . |
| 24 | Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week . |
| 25 | During a bright moon , headlights were kept off — otherwise they remained on only when driving on the road alone . |
| 26 | Mining and the condition of miners has been a running sore in Bolivia since the colonial period when Indians were herded off for certain death in the silver mines of Potosí , at that time the wealthiest city in South America . |
| 27 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 28 | As one of the final stages in the government 's privatization programme , three major state-owned steel companies were sold off on Nov. 20 for a total price of $885,000,000 . |
| 29 | Berg implies that they settled for a stable relationship , Frances acting the perfect Hollywood wife and ultimately finding consolation in religion , while Sam 's unspent emotions were burned off in work . |
| 30 | But this is by no means the biggest , in a recent Japanese display a mortar which weighed three quarters of a ton and had a diameter of four feet was let off . |