Example sentences of "[vb pp] off in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She woke , exclaiming that she must have dropped off in the heat . |
| 2 | ‘ For some mysterious reasons , which have never been discovered , she was seized and carried off in the dark , she knew not by whom . ’ |
| 3 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 4 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 5 | It was the perfect response from Mike Walker 's side after Saturday 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon which once again saw the East Anglians being written off in the title stakes . |
| 6 | The recognition that children can not simply be written off in the rationality stakes and can not therefore be denied autonomy on this account has led some writers to conclude that they can not , therefore , be denied it on any account . |
| 7 | Otherwise ACT is written off in the profit and loss account . |
| 8 | Here the desires of the vendor and Newco may converge because the problem for Newco in acquiring goodwill is that it will reduce Newco 's distributable profits as it must be written off in the profit and loss account , unless it can be written off against the share premium account . |
| 9 | The goodwill was fully written off in the year of acquisition and has been excluded from the calculation of profit on disposal ( see note 28 ) . |
| 10 | The expenditure concerned therefore will be written off in the year in which it is incurred . |
| 11 | The 25-year-old Dublin soldier had been virtually written off in the welterweight division . |
| 12 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 13 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 14 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 15 | She could not believe her eyes when she saw the Tillers being marched off in the crocodile line to the English Girls ' Club after rehearsals . |
| 16 | With their bare hands , they fought to save the man who had an ear ripped off in the attack . |
| 17 | If you roll an arrow the Goblin Doom Diver has missed and veered off in the direction indicated by the arrow . |
| 18 | Shorter wavelengths are felt by us as heat , and are also given off in the warmth of our bodies . |
| 19 | The canal is lined by a membrane resembling the tunica arachnoidea , and is situated above the fissure of the medulla , being separated by a medullary layer : it is most easily distinguished where the large nerves are given off in the bend of the neck and sacrum , imperceptibly terminating in the cauda equina . |
| 20 | Distillation is another , in which flowers are boiled in water , and the essential oil given off in the steam is collected and condensed by cooling . |
| 21 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 22 | Compositional autonomy is closed off in the sphere of avant-garde negation , while commodity musical production takes on an increasingly standardized character , coupling formula and fetishized effect in both ‘ serious ’ and ‘ popular ’ markets . |
| 23 | It had been paced off in the sand as he announced the dimensions to the architect . |
| 24 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 25 | You may have nodded off in the bus on your way to a dusty ruin where street-traders pestered you until you retired to the coach in a huff , but in print you will have enjoyed the delights of a ‘ bustling street market ’ , selling ‘ delightful local crafts ’ in the shadow of ‘ one of the forgotten wonders of the world ’ . |
| 26 | Sparked off in the city of Timisoara by Lazlo Tokes , a Hungarian priest , the uprising spread to Bucharest and triggered the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime ending 40 years of communist rule . |
| 27 | For instance , millions have been laid off in the construction industry . |
| 28 | However , 10,000 people were laid off in the process , including many of the 650 who worked at Unisys 's factory in Livingstone , Scotland . |
| 29 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 30 | Charcoal has these tars driven off in the course of manufacture , leaving it as a clean , uncomplicated fuel for use in gasifiers . |