Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [to-vb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 2 | The defending champions Jim Pugh and Rick Leach also lost their second successive round-robin group encounter and were left to play off for the minor placings . |
| 3 | The first year of the new HCIMA programmes of study was shown to get off to a good start , with over 740 student enrolments . |
| 4 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 5 | Tony Deane was told to fuck off by members of the ANL . |
| 6 | The difficulty is that the wife has died intestate , and her intestate heir is precisely the person she was asked to ward off from her property . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old suffered a thigh injury in last night 's League game against Partick Thistle and was forced to limp off after 37 minutes . |
| 8 | And I got the book it must have a bus you know ano , another , an extra bus on because he was allowed to get off at the tonight . |