Example sentences of "[vb pp] off at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government can not be unaware that women are frightened to travel alone at night in isolated places , to wait in bus depots where no staff are present , or to be dropped off at bus-rail links at isolated railway stations where there is no one to guard them against possible danger . |
| 2 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 3 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 4 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 5 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 6 | it does n't , it does n't matter what barrelage you put through it but put , as long as we know that er , the fifteen thou it 's gon na be written off at thirty pound a barrel , so the sooner you , you do it , the sooner it 's written off . |
| 7 | Inside , the headmaster 's room is partitioned off at one end of the building . |
| 8 | Our job was to act as navigational escort for about seventy Hurricanes which would be transported to the Med in ‘ Furious ’ and flown off at maximum range as reinforcements for Malta which was under heavy air attack . |
| 9 | Yet again , a piece of the family silver is being sold off at rock-bottom price , at great — |
| 10 | This is all so that we can produce more that we can eat , and yet for some reason the excess ca n't be sold off at reduced prices . |
| 11 | Now Robson 's jeered off at Sporting Lisbon for losing a UEFA Cup tie . |
| 12 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 13 | As there was very little chance of her being got off at that season she was advertised for sale . |
| 14 | I was really pissed off when it was called off at 5.20 |
| 15 | You have n't been dragged off at all |
| 16 | I told him we were simply adapting the phrase from the social security regulations , where for years it has worked perfectly satisfactorily in deciding whether or not a worker should get benefit if he is laid off at another workplace from the one where a dispute is taking place . |
| 17 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 18 | Well , is it , you mean technology has n't affected your job to such an extent that you feel that you know you could get laid off at any minute if they bring in something new ? |
| 19 | In fact , the two separate incidents concerned a 3-year-old girl who was enticed into woods near her home and sexually assaulted and then soon afterwards , a 3-year-old boy who was abducted from a play area and driven off at high speed before being dumped a mile and a half away forty minutes later . |
| 20 | Well I did n't have the heating on after it had gone off at nine o'clock you know . |
| 21 | At which point I turn and see that they have n't gone off at all , that I 'm sitting on the fourth step , the bottom step , right up against the barrier . |
| 22 | They said it could have gone off at any time . |
| 23 | It could have gone off at any time . |
| 24 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 25 | The styling has been rounded off at each end and VW house-style rectangular headlights have been fitted . |
| 26 | Any information the client is interested in can be printed off at any stage during the search . |
| 27 | Barratt soon made tubbing a semi-mechanical process though the dross still had to be scraped off at regular intervals ( perhaps for further jigging ) , and also the copper ore for further concentration . |
| 28 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 29 | Ten shillings from Saturday morning , from when they when the men left off at half past four on a Saturday till six o'clock Monday morning , we got ten shillings and if and if we were on watch on th on the night time , cos we used to do one watch one week and one night one week and two nights next , cos there used to be the mate and erm three more sailors , used to take turns , well there was only four nights so the man who done the Monday night , they done the Friday night . |
| 30 | Hit lights should also be left off at this time , once again to minimize the difference between the air and water temperatures . |