Example sentences of "[vb pp] off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 2 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 3 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 4 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 5 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 6 | A ruling yesterday by the Accounting Standards Board means any premium or discount when a company repurchases its own debt must be be written off in the same year it is incurred . |
| 7 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 8 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 9 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 10 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 11 | Obviously this would only be of benefit if there were capital gains against which the loss can be set off in the current or future years . |
| 12 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 13 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 15 | Then I told him that my friends had gone off in the wrong direction and that I was willing to pay the owner of the moped for taking a message to them . |
| 16 | Because the reason that er stile was blocked off in the first instance was there was a case where a child ran across that road . |
| 17 | Since p1 and qi have already been paired off in the appropriate manner ( i.e. they are equal ! ) we find that unc is not a nasty integer after all . |
| 18 | The pension is recently built , but is finished off in the traditional style . |
| 19 | Could I also ask a question which you might be completely clear on , but I 'm not , when we do back checks on files and make sure they are all up to date and so on , we come across maybe a research approval which has n't been signed off in the right places , how far back in time do we need to get that signed off . |
| 20 | The mare will look after the foal until he 's at least five weeks old and then he 'll be weaned off in the natural way . |
| 21 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 22 | I may have taken off in the wrong direction entirely . |
| 23 | Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park . |
| 24 | ‘ It has particularly taken off in the last three years . |
| 25 | The losers were disrupted by a head injury to prop Seamus Foley , who was forced off in the first half . |
| 26 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | Barry Butler , who was stretchered off in the 2-1 Deva Stadium win over Brighton , yesterday had Xrays on his injured ankle . |
| 28 | And as Switzerland began to run riot , Gough was sent off in the 84th minute for handling the ball as Knup threatened to break through again . |
| 29 | GARETH HALL will miss Chelsea 's Coca-Cola Cup quarter-final with Crystal Palace after being sent off in the stormy fourth round replay against Everton . |
| 30 | Hirst was sent off in the first leg , for the first time in his career , and Bright he was signed too late to be eligible . |