Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 2 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 3 | Ample free parking is available adjacent to the Museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance |
| 4 | On and off street parking is available within easy walking distance of the museum and coach parties can be dropped off at the main entrance . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , all good things come to an end and , as expected sooner or later , our ramp would be sucked off to the great skatepark graveyard in the sky to join Chester , Warrington , Preston , Rhyl , etc. … everything this part of the country ever gets . |
| 6 | Containers and freight , craned down on to the raft from the deck of the LSL , would be lifted off by the giant Fiat Allis fork-lift trucks . |
| 7 | An attack is warded off with the rear hand guard : the defender then drops onto one knee and strikes with a crippling tiger claw to the groin . |
| 8 | Parents will no longer accept being fobbed off by the so-called experts . |
| 9 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 10 | True also that property questions had already been separated off from the main business , to be handled by the British Rail Property Board ( also on a regional basis , but with somewhat different geographical areas from those used by the operating regions ) . |
| 11 | He was a part , he said , of the illegal and dangerous dissemination of information , dangerous because those who were arrested risked being parcelled off to the Sebsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry or thrown to the mercy of the zeks in the camps . |
| 12 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 13 | I felt rather like an explorer being seen off into the unknown . |
| 14 | The piquancy and paradoxes of this dilemma were illustrated when the victim of the matricide was hauled out , praised , sent into battle like a version of El Cid , and then , with mingled relief and regret , seen off to the New World . |
| 15 | Many of these buyers are turned off by the sleek lines and road-sensitive ride of classy European marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz . |
| 16 | A FURIOUS housewife took three workmen hostage after being told her heating must be turned off until the New Year . |
| 17 | Hundreds of workers marched on Westminster earlier this year , fearing that come privatisation , the millions in the BR pension fund would be creamed off by the new rail franchise companies . |
| 18 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 19 | Any support , whether financial or political for those outside the enterprise culture — the poor , the homeless , the unemployed — has been written off as the unrealistic and dangerous machinations of the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 20 | Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends . |
| 21 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 22 | However , the Jordanian government considered that a further US$40,000,000 owed to Saudi Arabia since the mid-1980s had previously been written off by the Saudi ruler King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz . |
| 23 | Psychic healing , once written off by the medical establishment as bunkum and jiggery- pokery , is now recommended by some GPs and is becoming available on the NHS . |
| 24 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 25 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 26 | However , contrary to the expectations of some commentators , Bessmertnykh did not use his visit to announce the restoration of full diplomatic relations , broken off by the Soviet Union during the 1967 Six Day War . |
| 27 | The Bill was brought forward in response to the outcry from consumers and the industry about the way that , over the years , they have been ripped off by the privatised utilities and the fact that , while the regulators have made a contribution — no one would deny that — they have not done anything like enough and do not have the necessary power or resources to advance consumer interests and issues . |
| 28 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 29 | There 's a school nearby and environmentalists are worried about the possible effects of fumes given off from the burning rubbish . |
| 30 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |