Example sentences of "were [vb pp] off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In Argentina , serious negotiations with the state oil firm YPF were broken off after the 1930 coup . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yesterday , the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation . |
| 7 | Of our initial 20 rather withered carnations , 18 were carried off into the distance by bewildered or gracious lasses . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 10 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then , to mark the end of the service , three enormous thunder-flashes were let off in the rear gatehouse . |
| 14 | For one early arrival in Ramsey , where the internees were cordoned off from the rest of the town by barbed wire : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The rest were written off to the Chinese , who did not take kindly to violation of their air-space . |
| 20 | The cars were written off in the accident , but both drivers amazingly walked away with just minor cuts and bruises . |
| 21 | Total restructuring costs of about $2.4 BILLION were written off in the fourth quarter of 1989 . |
| 22 | Substantial debts were written off by the Government during the change |
| 23 | The strikes were sparked off by the rank and file , most were unofficial , and often they were resisted at the outset by national trade union leaderships . |
| 24 | I remind the Minister that , when the National Bus Company subsidiaries were sold off to the private sector , the first thing that the private company did in many instances was to get rid of the management because of its dissatisfaction with it . |
| 25 | Many ofthe 2.5 million rivets have been renewed , and parts of the ironwork have been replaced in recent years-authenticated chunks of the original were sold off to the public as highly-priced souvenirs . |
| 26 | The Kitching works were sold off to the S&DR and in 1860 Alfred handed over the Lister works to his cousin , Charles Ianson . |
| 27 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 28 | These were sold off by the French . |
| 29 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 30 | Class 313s continued to look after the inner suburban system , and the now non-standard 1977-series Class 312s were packed off to the Colchester line . |