Example sentences of "that [verb] been [verb] off " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 2 | A detachment represents a body of troops that has been split off from the rest of their regiment and armed as small , independent units whose role is to operate within sight of their regiment . |
| 3 | The extradition was still stalled ; there was another fraud investigation involving a British defence equipment company that had been ripped off in an American takeover deal ; there was a coke run in London that the Bureau in New York were interested in ; there was a guy who was under surveillance and who was going to have a Grand Jury warrant out for him for chopping his girlfriend 's mother into small pieces ; there were investigations that were vaguer , and things that were closer . |
| 4 | Evidently that had been broken off very soon after she arrived on her first station . |
| 5 | It was a sliver of a larger room that had been partitioned off . |
| 6 | Residents and shoppers in Girvan were recently confronted with a very smelly problem , as hundreds of fish were left to rot in freezers that had been switched off when a shop closed down and the previous owners omitted to tell the managing agent . |
| 7 | The one that had been bitten off , presumably . |
| 8 | In Committee I gave a list of the bus stations in town and city centres in England that had been sold off similarly to , although rather less spectacularly than , the station in Southampton . |
| 9 | For those that have been put off by the laborious nature of the program 's drawing method the new freehand and auto trace tools offer a quick and easy method of generating high quality artwork from scanned or existing material . |
| 10 | That 's the participants that I 've got , do you wan na have a check of it , see if there 's anybody that 's been missed off . |
| 11 | from a label that 's been cut off , it can go in a four wash , cos it does n't matter what it 's in with cos it 's only on shirts for us . |
| 12 | Well , I think this is erm , replacing the house that 's been sold off , really , is n't it , I do n't think it was a good idea , really . |