Example sentences of "was [verb] off [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CHUBB Security , which was floated off from Racal Electronics last October , today published a sparkling first set of accounts as a separate company . |
| 2 | If every drop of water was drained off after closing the main stop cock , three could be no dreaded flood . |
| 3 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 4 | Well they were two storey buildings , we had one office which was partitioned off for us clerks and the other half was for the traffic superintendent who was responsible , directly responsible to the general manager of the Ipswich Electric Supply and Transport Departments , so erm and then we had another office adjoining that which was a store room because in those days we used to have to erm record and keep in safekeeping all lost property , no end of things we used to have but we , you know , we used to have pigeon holes and lost property that was brought in , was placed into these pigeon holes it 'd be Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 7 | Gerald Bellamy was posted to the squadron , having previously served with 3 A.A.C.U. He recalls : ‘ I was posted off to Takali and given cockpit drill in a Hurricane . |
| 8 | In terms of short-term economic measures , the main thrust of government policy was to drain off from the economy excess money which was fuelling inflation , contributing to constant shortages and frustrating efforts at economic control . |
| 9 | The sea was drawing off across the foreshore — leaving acre after acre of rocks — with a long series of hollow roars , diminishing , diminuendo on diminuendo . |
| 10 | She was marched off under Andrée 's eyes . |
| 11 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 12 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 13 | Then , like a whirlwind , he was storming off through the garden , heading back towards the villa . |
| 14 | The surpising thing is not that this is happening now , but rather that it was staved off for so long . |
| 15 | But the full force of the poison was staved off for a while . |
| 16 | Her husband , who has been ill recently , was hustled off to a chair in the corner . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was tipped off about you when you came to France , remember ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The 24-year-old central defender was carried off at Tranmere Rovers on Friday night when his knee locked . |
| 21 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 22 | They coped with the pressure admirably , with central defenders Rogan and Ball , who was carried off with knee ligament damage early in the second half , outstanding . |
| 23 | Arsenal have slipped to sixth after three successive Premier League defeats , and they will be without England full-back Lee Dixon for at least a month after he was carried off with a knee injury . |
| 24 | Rowledge sliced a penalty wide of the target before having better luck with a kick just inside the half-way line , and there was a real setback for the visitors when Cook was carried off with a leg injury . |
| 25 | TRANMERE defender Tony Thomas was carried off with a broken leg after only two minutes of this Anglo-Italian Cup-tie last night . |
| 26 | Strachan was carried off with what looked like a nasty injury . |
| 27 | Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes . |
| 28 | Ansah was carried off with concussion at Luton on Saturday , but had a precautionary brain scan and reported fit this morning . |
| 29 | Internationals Paul Moriarty , who was carried off with a knee problem , and Bobby Goulding were injured in Sunday 's 48-16 defeat at Headingley and forwards Steve McCurrie and Harvey Howard both appear before the disciplinary commission on Thursday after being sent off . |
| 30 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |