Example sentences of "been off " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy McGlashan — why had he been off work that Tuesday ? |
| 2 | ‘ Have you ever been off the island ? ’ asked Endill . |
| 3 | Tidal experts agreed that the body could not have been off Pilsey Island for more than 24 hours . |
| 4 | It has never been off road , |
| 5 | She had been off work for several days and Lovebird had kept her in bed and fed her chicken soup from the stove . |
| 6 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 7 | He had an accident at work and has been off work for two weeks . |
| 8 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 9 | The last occasion he had parachuted into the sea , at night , operationally , had been off South Georgia . |
| 10 | Having been off all winter , we are now on the long road back to full fitness , and my main worry , having recently started trotting , is finding somewhere where the going is n't too hard . |
| 11 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
| 12 | He was made redundant in March 1991 and received payments until returning to full-time work in July 1991 , but suffered a prolapsed disc a month later and has been off work since then . |
| 13 | Ladbrokes had quoted Jenny Pitman 's gelding , who has been off the course for over two and a half years , at 33-1 but have now scratched him from their list . |
| 14 | Trainer Peter Beaumont is keen to get a run into the seven-year-old who has been off the track since narrowly going down to 40-1 shock winner Sibton Abbey last month . |
| 15 | I 've had faxes , letters , telephone calls — in fact I 've never been off the phone all week because of the speculation . |
| 16 | Granville Again , an unlucky faller when poised to deliver his challenge in the race 12 months ago , has been off the track since he finished eight lengths third behind Mighty Mogul at Kempton over Christmas . |
| 17 | The ME Polartek Sweater has hardly been off my back for the past month or so . |
| 18 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 19 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 20 | The Schimmel sale was a perfect opening for the nervous novice , as the works were fresh , having been off the market for decades , familiar from exhibitions and publications , and generally trouble-free . |
| 21 | Hitachi Ltd , one of HP 's PA-RISC wins , has been off developing its own proprietary 32-bit RISC chip for embedded applications : it should start sampling later this year . |
| 22 | Mountain Crash has been off the course since his Cottenham run , but may reappear in the Ladies ' Open , in which recent winners Easy Over , Royal Sting , Shedid and Takeover Bid are among a good entry . |
| 23 | These carvings have been off display for many years as it was discovered that atmospheric pollution , even within the museum , was eating away at the stone . |
| 24 | Both pilots had been off duty for a period of approximately thirty-five hours prior to the trans-Atlantic flight and had flown a total of just over seven hours on the day of the accident . |
| 25 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 26 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 27 | And he had n't been off long , perhaps been off three or four weeks , I I would say . |
| 28 | The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time . |
| 29 | only been off my work for about er seven days . |
| 30 | Some of Ashiq 's shocked colleagues have been off work since the murder . |