Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha began a visit to the Soviet Union on Nov. 6 and announced the re-establishment of consular relations which were broken off in 1956 . |
| 2 | The company used to have a small chain of off-licences , but these were sold off in 1972 to help finance the brewery modernization programme . |
| 3 | Thousands of homes and businesses were cut off by two fires at exchanges in Liverpool and Sheffield last month depriving them of all telephone services , including emergency 999 calls . |
| 4 | The professionals who had survived the cut were teeing off from 8 till 11 . |
| 5 | Next day , 13th. , four of the squadron 's Hurricanes were led off at 1330 by Flt.Lt . |
| 6 | The site offices were taken off on 18 November . |
| 7 | According to Volodymyr Yavorivsky , the head of the commission , automatic safety systems were switched off on three occasions in the past year ( reputedly in order to boost power production ) . |
| 8 | They said they were setting off at nine o'clock as if to go |
| 9 | SPURS shares were sent off in 1990 when they were suspended by the Stock Exchange . |
| 10 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 11 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 12 | A police spokeswoman said a section of the eastbound carriageway of the A45 was cordoned off into one lane for more than two hours . |
| 13 | The police investigation was sparked off in 1991 when a Sheffield woman made a detailed statement to police alleging abuse by the Hanbys while she was in their care as a child . |
| 14 | I was really pissed off when it was called off at 5.20 |
| 15 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 16 | In theory , it was set off by two boys who stole a can of soft drink from a third boy . |
| 17 | Now according to forensic it looks as if the explosion was set off by two sticks of gelignite and a couple of detonators trapped under the table and wired into the lamp that stood , as it were , beside the chairman 's right hand . |
| 18 | 77 percent of it was cut off in 1922 and called Trans-Jordan ; the remaining section was partitioned by the United Nations in 1947 . |
| 19 | It was switched off in 1989 , and now the hundred foot long pipes used to carry hot carbon dioxide to run the giant turbines producing electricity are coming down . |
| 20 | Quinn , who had a disappointing game despite those two efforts on goal , was taken off after 70 minutes to be replaced by Mike Sheron as City tried to save the game . |
| 21 | On the second morning , the innings was finished off for 265 , only for England to collapse dismally . |
| 22 | The kick-off was put off for 15 minutes because there were long queues outside . |
| 23 | It is true that there were unforeseen obstacles for Hibs to overcome — not least of which was an ankle injury to goalkeeper Chris Reid who was stretchered off after 37 minutes after a 50-50 challenge with Colin West — but it was difficult to disagree with Alex Miller 's belief that Hibs shot themselves in the foot . |
| 24 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 25 | This request from AFHQ to SHAEF was sent off at 1917 hrs , only forty minutes after the despatch of the Robertson signal . |
| 26 | Bremner once tried to rile an opponent by drawing attention to his pock-marked face by shouting ‘ Go and get it filled in with polyfilla ’ , but the crunch came when he was sent off in 1967 for fouling the Nottingham Forest keeper Grummitt . |
| 27 | Chris Burton , a Featherstone substitute , was sent off after 32 minutes for a high tackle on Craig Izzard , and visitors Leeds went on to win 22-20 . |
| 28 | MILLWALL boss Mick McCarthy criticised Malcolm Allen who was sent off after 13 minutes of their 3-1 defeat at Watford . |
| 29 | Again the Cobblers held them to a goalless draw after being reduced to ten men , but this time it was not through injury : half-back Manning was sent off after twenty-five minutes for tripping Forest 's West from behind . |
| 30 | In July 1961 a new manse was bought in Margretta Park for £4100 ; the debt was paid off by 1963 . |