Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The triumph of greed ; an Antiques Roadshow society in which our most prized assets were sold off for profit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 4 | Occasionally they were cut off for other reasons . |
| 5 | Boss William Courtney says many more people were cut off for non-payment , but the shares added 2p to 455p . |
| 6 | In a million bathrooms , pores breathed sighs of relief as the trowelled-on layers of moisturiser , foundation , blusher , shaper , powder , eye liner , eye shadow , mascara , lashes , and lipstick were scraped off for the first time in decades . |
| 7 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 8 | She took her glasses off , every journey , because , if she did not , they were taken off for her and thrown out of the bus window into a hedge . |
| 9 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 10 | Last year , 20 players were sent off for the use of elbows . |
| 11 | Sheppey A. , Sheppey K. , Rawlings P. , Rawlings B. , and Von Bopp were sent off for fighting amongst themselves along with Thornham Bridge captain ( later with Athletico ) , Trevor Proby , who hit everybody . |
| 12 | The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct . |
| 13 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 14 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 15 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 16 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 17 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 18 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 19 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 20 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 21 | Planting began in 1969 , but in 1981 , 15 years after the scheme had begun , the whole was sold off for a fraction of almost the billion dollars that had been invested in it . |
| 22 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 23 | The reason there is not a report is that Coun Terrans 's jump was called off for a day , perhaps because parchute jumps and mid-air collisions , even of a mock variety , are not a good match . |
| 24 | I tried to speak with the landlord but was driven off for what I seemed — a ragged , evil-smelling beggar . |
| 25 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 26 | An area of one square mile around Oxford Street was sealed off for almost five hours and traders , already hit by recession , lost millions of pounds . |
| 27 | The Yard said the area around the police station was sealed off for half an hour while the package was examined . |
| 28 | Kathleen injected the painkiller , and then he was wheeled off for X-rays . |
| 29 | She felt humiliated by her poverty , especially when the telephone was cut off for non-payment and she had to confess this to Gilda , the senior assistant in the shoe shop . |
| 30 | On the second morning , the innings was finished off for 265 , only for England to collapse dismally . |