Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have had people like Cilla Black and Petula Clarke fall into my arms in floods of tears after they 've come off from that one . |
| 2 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 3 | They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents , who say they 've since been threatened and intimidated . |
| 4 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 5 | The simultaneous news that the Commander in Chief of the Army , von Brauchitsch , had been relieved of his duties and that Hitler himself had taken over the direct military leadership of the army , together with the undeniable fact that the German advance had come to a halt and the Soviet counter-attack close to Moscow could only be staved off with partial retreats , and , not least , the entry of the United States into the war , combined to produce the first major shock to the German population during the Second World War . |
| 6 | In 1861 the statistician and economist Cournot observed that ‘ the belief in philosophic truth has cooled off to such an extent that neither the public nor the academies any longer like to receive or to welcome works of this kind , except as products of pure scholarship or historical curiosity . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Had she herself perhaps dropped off at one point ? |
| 9 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |
| 10 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 11 | Strong men fainted and were carried off by weak men … |
| 12 | The way the girl carried off by These us on an early unsigned vase ( fig. 91 ) overlaps the border — the action breaking out of the frame — is symptomatic . |
| 13 | And we walked down clubbing right and left , and we cleared the streets and those that fell to the floor were carried off by those who had hidden behind when we went past . |
| 14 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 15 | Many will therefore be hived off to quango-like agencies based on the eight-county structure . |
| 16 | While Fountains Abbey , the great Gothic ruin set in beautiful parkland , could naturally be transferred to the National Trust given a suitable endowment ( who would provide the millions needed for that ? ) , and Westminster Abbey 's Chapter House could be entrusted to the Church of England , it is uncertain whether some of the less glamourous archaeological sites could be hived off to local councils without risk to their future . |
| 17 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 18 | The Ossis have been fobbed off with one middling portfolio , transport , and two lightweight ones . |
| 19 | They were frequently left out in the cold and were fobbed off with symbolic concessions — such as a tatty play space instead of a decent nursery . |
| 20 | All too often those in need of such remedies are either fobbed off with sympathetic noises or given drugs that are inappropriate and toxic . |
| 21 | There is no ‘ mass audience ’ of uncritical couch potatoes ready to be fobbed off with any old rubbish . |
| 22 | East Europeans are also highly sensitive about being fobbed off with out-of-date stock — a remnant of planned economy days . |
| 23 | The one on the right went only to sealed-off sections of corridor on each floor , where any interlopers who had managed to get that far would be fobbed off with further charades designed to conceal the true function of the building . |
| 24 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 25 | Do n't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians . |
| 26 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 27 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 28 | Lenin wishes to explain why it was that although the ‘ peaceful mask ’ of capitalism had been torn off in all the countries of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century , and popular discontent was widespread , it was only in Russia that a successful revolution occurred . |
| 29 | Fortunately , Town were let off from this one . |
| 30 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |