Example sentences of "[vb pp] off and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitting in with her hectic social agenda I was most conveniently dropped off and picked up by car . |
| 2 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 3 | The broken fringes of grass were lifted off and stacked well out of the way , the spades began to clear the ground downwards from the arc of russet brickwork , warily because of sinister little trickles of loose earth that drifted down the slope at every movement . |
| 4 | Many people at the Home Office would deny this , arguing that the imperatives of fairness and justice should permeate every branch of its work and can not be hived off and left to others . |
| 5 | The questioner , however , was not so easily fobbed off and used a familiar gambit in an attempt to get Sir Denys to open up . |
| 6 | Those particular shackles have been torn off and tossed aside . ’ |
| 7 | The perforated slips are then torn off and placed in the pay envelopes of the employees . |
| 8 | In addition , declaration forms were missing in some cases in the departmental libraries , or older forms had been torn off and replaced by new forms when full rather than being retained , thus losing the evidential value of the forms . |
| 9 | If predators do not oblige , the pests are picked off and squashed — not a job for the faint-hearted ! |
| 10 | Coral spot with its orange pustules is dealt with in this way , while any rose leaves stricken with the ubiquitous rose black spot are picked off and burnt . |
| 11 | ‘ The work is obviously piling up , and there 's always the worry that my clients might get cheesed off and take their business elsewhere . |
| 12 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 13 | At Ashington we can see the areas of ridge and furrow , part of which would be ploughed and planted with cereals and legumes in open fields , while the rest would be fallow and down to grass — this would have been fenced off and grazed by cattle and sheep . |
| 14 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
| 15 | She 's written off and complained about the judge . |
| 16 | Limited which seemed mostly to involve advertising and but I 'd written off and told them their candidate was . |
| 17 | Oh , I suppose I could have written off and got a new length of rubber , or got old Cameron in the ironmonger 's shop to find me something , but it would never feel right again . |
| 18 | I 've been written off and battled back before and I am determined to do so again . ’ |
| 19 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 20 | A woman had fallen off and broken her pelvis . |
| 21 | In the case of an eighth-century Pre-Khmer bronze figure of a Bodhisattva , estimated at £40,000-£60,000 , the body had been tested and proved ancient but it was clear that the head had once been broken off and re-attached . |
| 22 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 23 | Thus undergraduate physics is always being decapitated — once an aspect grows to be important , it is lopped off and becomes an engineering subject ( electronics , semiconductor devices , fibre optics , acoustics , quantum electronics , electron microscopy , etc. , etc. , etc . ) . |
| 24 | Well there 's water provided , there 's showers provided , there 's , there 's clean air is provided , there 's dirty areas and it was all well planned and segregated and , and partitioned off and curtained off and so on and , and it does work . |
| 25 | Are they aware that the layouts produced by ZZAP ! are constantly being ripped off and copied by at least 40% of all other mag 's on the shelves ? ! |
| 26 | The rest of the animals had been roughed off and turned away in a distant paddock . |
| 27 | Concrete absorbs next to no water , and soft mortar takes too long to stiffen before it can be smoothed off and marked with a light cross-hatch key . |
| 28 | Its spectrographs can analyse the ultraviolet light given off and absorbed by stars , galaxies , gas-clouds and other celestial paraphernalia , something which earthbound observers can not do because of the ozone layer . |
| 29 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 30 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |