Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At Junction , on the Lemhi River , the Nez Perce found the settlements fortified , and were warned off by Chief Tenday of the Lemhi Shoshoni . |
| 32 | I soon decided it was a mug 's game to get emotionally involved with any aircrew , as they were killed off with such regularity . |
| 33 | During the last interglacial reefs occurred ( Fig. 8.35A ) , but with the low sea level of the last glaciation ( Fig. 8.35B ) these were killed off in most areas . |
| 34 | The match turned ugly in the dying minutes when two-goal Tosh of Arbroath and Fife goalkeeper Charles were sent off for violent conduct . |
| 35 | Messengers were sent off to sympathetic neighbours , and , amongst them , Hugh Woodburn of Loudoun Mains sent his younger brother , George , to ask John Nisbet of Hardhill to come with all haste . |
| 36 | Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week . |
| 37 | SPURS shares were sent off in 1990 when they were suspended by the Stock Exchange . |
| 38 | We tried to work the system , but at times of intensive spraying operations we were asked reduce our area of notification as large areas of the country were blanketed off to military operations . |
| 39 | British seamen in the US deserted in droves , alarming the new British government and bringing about a revived dialogue not only on seamen 's complaints about the inadequacy of British pay , the constantly recurring problems of loss of wages and effects when torpedoed and the inroad made by railway fares when they were paid off from diverted ships , but also on the dangerous state of mind of seamen who were incensed by the conviction that they were constantly subject to neglect , mishandling and coercion . |
| 40 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | The main Derby — Chesterfield road ran along the other flank and this was fenced off with rabbit-proof wire netting and was screened from the road by a long , narrow spinney . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | A police spokeswoman said a section of the eastbound carriageway of the A45 was cordoned off into one lane for more than two hours . |
| 46 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | The first time we went , Marie wore her bra and knickers , but she was told off for that , so she bought this real nice swimming costume . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 51 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 52 | ‘ She was going off for short stays at the Home , and then every weekend to give me a break . |
| 53 | So she was packed off to bloody England and came back with an Englishman . |
| 54 | We were always hidden away somewhere , I was packed off to various boarding-schools , he gave us piles of money , he just did n't want to see us ! |
| 55 | Now , for safety , the path was roped off on either side . |
| 56 | I was really pissed off when it was called off at 5.20 |
| 57 | But the dig , which involved drilling three holes , was called off after all they found were eighteenth century foundations . |
| 58 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 59 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 60 | We skirted the now-notorious refreshment hut , which was marked off with those fluorescent orange ribbons that usually signal a particularly nasty accident , and which was now guarded by two policemen . |