Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] off for " in BNC.
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1 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
2 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
3 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
4 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
5 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
6 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
7 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
8 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
9 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
10 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
11 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
12 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
13 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
14 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
15 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
16 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
17 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
18 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
19 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
20 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
21 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
22 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
23 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
24 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
25 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
26 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
27 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
28 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |