Example sentences of "[noun] were off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such was their condition — they were pulled off the ice last week ‘ more dead than alive ’ — that Sir Ranulph and Dr Stroud were off to the Army Personnel Research Establishment for tests on the way their bodies held up to it all . |
| 2 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 3 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 4 | The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs . |
| 5 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |