Example sentences of "was [vb pp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 2 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 3 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 4 | He then said ‘ God bless ! ’ to her , and was carried off into the night . |
| 5 | The following year his whole family was carried off by the plague , while in 1666 most of his remaining property was destroyed by the fire . |
| 6 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 7 | It was hell for McColgan as she was picked off in the run-in for a consolation bronze . |
| 8 | When I asked earlier what those penalties might be , I was fobbed off with the answer that the matter would be referred to the industrial tribunal , and that the worker involved might receive some form of compensation . |
| 9 | so it was written off in the end . |
| 10 | ‘ It was ’ , he would read , ‘ inevitable that the Solidarity revolution was sparked off by the Gdansk shipyard workers . |
| 11 | Our concern about police investigations was sparked off by the realisation that the trial is not an adequate tool for testing their reliability , which in turn disqualifies the trial as a verifying test . |
| 12 | The crisis was sparked off by the arrest and dismissal on Feb. 19 of three Council members , namely Col. Thaabe Letsie , Lt.-Col. Joshua Sekhobe Letsie ( both cousins of the King ) and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , and of the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications , Maj. Philip Moyani Mokhanto . |
| 13 | The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption . |
| 14 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |
| 15 | The surplus population of England , especially that of the Home Counties and the Midlands , was siphoned off to the capital . |
| 16 | Adds Murray : ‘ I was hauled off to the station but allowed to go after agreeing to pay for the damage . ’ |
| 17 | Although the family seat was sold off in the fifties , the thirteenth Earl finds himself in a very similar sort of house , and the comparison is instructive . |
| 18 | To protect the scene , the park was closed off to the public for much of the day but has since been re-opened . |
| 19 | The Surrey team 's goalkeeper Adrian Blake was helped off in the 57th minute , with his team already 3–0 down , after being apparently struck by a coin thrown from the crowd . |
| 20 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 21 | After having lost over fourteen hours to the weather , the game was called off with the score at 227 for 6 declared , and a series that had promised so much with its exciting start fizzled out meaninglessly , with almost seven of the twenty-five playing days lost . |
| 22 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 23 | A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute . |
| 24 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 25 | The plan was called off at the last moment . |
| 26 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 27 | But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 . |
| 28 | The strike was called off on the following day . |
| 29 | The round was called off after the injured Andy Galvin was taken hospital . |
| 30 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |