Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 2 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 3 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 4 | Concern that this uncontrolled expansion of the private sector had been siphoning off funds that might have been more cost effectively used in home based community care led to the government commissioning reviews of resource management and quality of care . |
| 5 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 6 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 7 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 8 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 9 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 10 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 11 | Mother Francis had been putting off her visit to Mother Clare as long as possible . |
| 12 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 13 | He told her he and Mallachy had got involved ‘ through Mallachy 's big mouth ’ in a late-club row up the Malone Road where some students had been blowing off their mouths over politics and religion , and it had almost come to blows . |