Example sentences of "[vb pp] off in [art] [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 | After flying on land , the group were then whisked off in an airborne plane to Robert Carrier 's restaurant in Suffolk for a sumptuous lunch . |
| 4 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 5 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 6 | The debt was written off in a long , slow reckoning of my own , though by the time I reached my mid-teens I already had a certainty of the future waiting — a void to be filled as I chose , with nothing predetermined . |
| 7 | A decade ago its dowdy department stores had more or less been written off in the frantic race to carve up the high street . |
| 8 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Complexity is no disadvantage , so long as the report can be produced and the dust shaken off in a few minutes . |
| 11 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 12 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 13 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 14 | The remaining 51 per cent of Qantas will be sold off in a public share float some time next year . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The two bombs were attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior , berthed at Marsden Wharf , at around 8.30 p.m. and at about 9.30 p.m. a man wearing a red woollen hat was seen abandoning a Zodiac dinghy near the Outboard Boating Club in Hobson 's Bay and then climbing up the embankment to Tamaki Drive where he was picked up and driven off in a camper van . |
| 20 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 21 | Spiro is believed to have driven off in a four-wheel-drive vehicle . |
| 22 | Within half and hour , Curtis learned his man had been driven off in a green Cadillac by the unfortunate owner of the car , whom he had taken hostage at gun point . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 25 | She did not understand what could have made the boy run off in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation . |
| 30 | 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 . |