Example sentences of "were [verb] off [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the theories about the abandoned ship Marie Celeste is that the crew were plucked off by a hungry kraken . |
| 2 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 3 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 4 | Although agreement was reached on establishing a UDF newspaper with a maximum 70,000-copy circulation , the talks were broken off by the UDF delegation on Jan. 18 after the BCP had refused to give written guarantees that the other promises would be fulfilled . |
| 5 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 6 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 7 | Two years ago , she and John Orbell , archivist of Baring Brothers and chairman of the Council 's Liquidations and Rescue Support Group , were tipped off by a friendly Extel employee about the news agency 's imminent takeover by United Newspapers . |
| 8 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 9 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 10 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |
| 11 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 12 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |
| 13 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 14 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 15 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 16 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 17 | Mrs Archer told her that apart from three vacant rooms ‘ for the tourism ’ , all the others were let off to the council , who put homeless people into them . |
| 18 | Back at camp , with Ansell 's note of explanation , they were let off with a caution . |
| 19 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 20 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 21 | After one or two formal speeches ( at which reference was made to our visit as the ‘ first short-term English course since the crushing of the Gang of Four ’ , and I tried to make a suitable reply , ) we were whisked off to the Friendship Hotel to a welcoming meal consisting of Peking duck , ancient duck 's eggs , and other good things , and I wielding our chopsticks to the best of our ability . |
| 22 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 23 | We climbed down to his fishing boat and were pushing off against the stonework . |
| 24 | Everything seemed to be settled when Taiwanese and Indonesian officials agreed that the animals would be sent to the orang-utan rehabilitation centre run by Dr Galdikas at Tanjung Puting in Kalimantan ; and in November 1990 , they were seen off at the airport by BBC cameras , reporters from around the world and a hundred singing Taiwanese children . |
| 25 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 26 | Mr Marland says the safe and lucrative deals were creamed off by the syndicates , and the risky ones left for the unsuspecting to pick up . |
| 27 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 28 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 29 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 30 | Substantial debts were written off by the Government during the change |