Example sentences of "be taken off [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Using this , make a box 375mm square and 375mm high , with a lid that can be taken off in the spring so that the box can be cleaned .
2 All of which you will be tired of hearing but it has been brought about by my great fear that my husband will be taken off by the Brownings once more , this time to France and there is nothing we can do to prevent it they being the masters of our fate .
3 Boys and old men drove donkeys , which carried baskets of sand from where it had blown into the town at one end , to be taken off by the wind at the other .
4 Alternatively the quantities can be taken off from the drawings or extracted from the builder 's estimate .
5 This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home .
6 The yacht 's three crew Kevin Cowley , Robert Goodbody and Susan Tallon , all from Co Wicklow were taken off by the lifeboatmen and landed uninjured at Porthdinllaen .
7 Tonight 's match will be Fashanu 's first since being taken off in the original match at Goodison Park .
8 The duty officer has to be on hand , not only to greet the pilots and passengers , but to make sure the plane gets refuelled and baggage is taken off into the airport .
9 We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward .
10 The women complained to the station master — and Knowles was taken off at the next station .
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