Example sentences of "[vb pp] off [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 2 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 3 | Some pests are large enough to be gathered and destroyed by hand : caterpillars can be picked off at any time , while slugs and snails around vulnerable plants are easily collected by torchlight on moist evenings . |
| 4 | With their help the loading ramps of both rigs were lowered , then the four men immediately moved off to either side to cover everyone from attack . |
| 5 | So , expecting to be whisked off to some faraway hot spot for a mild spell of brainwashing , we duly prepared to bring you next week 's Unigram from under the shade of a palm tree on a secluded sandy beach — or at least somewhere nicer than four storeys above the Charing Cross Road in rainy central London . |
| 6 | Gerry Boden , the lost boy , had made off in that direction when he was hunted out of the dangerous area . |
| 7 | I am not yet wholly sure about the specific terms of the policy taken out , but it appears that in the eventuality of the jewel being stolen , either before or after her death , the insurance money is payable to her husband — and is not to be syphoned off into some trust fund or other . |
| 8 | She was calm , her breathing even , she had possibly dozed off at some time , a thought she found quite odd . |
| 9 | The suicide theory wo n't occur to her and her common sense would tell her it 's unlikely to be written off as another accident . |
| 10 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 11 | Murray and McKean were written off in many quarters after the disappointment of Barcelona — Murray finished eighth after starting favourite , McKean failed to reach the final — and the pair went to Toronto with their careers at the crossroads . |
| 12 | Paul Wells had eased off by this point and was actually beaten by his brother who won the domestic event . |
| 13 | Maybe he had zoomed off into another body . |
| 14 | Should a main branch be broken off for some reason ( by vineyard machinery , for example ) , it is permissible to bring out a shoot half-way along the next branch to fill the gap . |
| 15 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 16 | He thought these were helpful plans — something positive to get to grips with the habit and see an end to cash shortages in the housekeeping as money was siphoned off for another packet ; no more sandpaper taste in the mouth ; no clothes reeking of stale tobacco and an end to the shakes . |
| 17 | A Sergeant with a crudely reconstructed pink blob of a nose — obviously bitten off at some stage in his professional or previous career — sat at a damascened bronze data-desk stained green with cupreous patina . |
| 18 | I suppose one or two people have got off with each other on tour but that 's about it , ’ he said . |
| 19 | As there was very little chance of her being got off at that season she was advertised for sale . |
| 20 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 21 | Group leaders can easily be bought off in some way , and once co-opted can usually deliver a quiescent membership in support of the status quo . |
| 22 | This view could not easily be maintained as the evidence mounted that , despite their negotiations with Sir Herbert Samuel and the TUC 's meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 May , the strike had been called off without any guarantees that those who had been involved would not be victimized by employers and that there would be no immediate resumption of negotiations between the coal miners and the coal owners . |
| 23 | Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time . |
| 24 | What will the Germans think when they arrive in Glasgow with players still fresh from a ten-week break in the Bundesliga and a legislative system which means that if any of their players has called off from this game they must not play for their club sides next weekend ? ’ |
| 25 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 26 | Now , for safety , the path was roped off on either side . |
| 27 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 28 | Oh , he said , I expect in a minute the door will be flung back and I 'll be dragged off to some sort of temple arena where I 'll fight maybe a couple of giant spiders and an eight-foot slave from the jungles of Klatch and then I 'll rescue some kind of a princess from the altar and then kill off a few guards or whatever and then this girl will show me the secret passage out of the place and we 'll liberate a couple of horses and escape with the treasure . ’ |
| 29 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 30 | Some writers probably set off with that idea in the back of their minds , but up to now Hannah has disarmed them all . |