Example sentences of "been [verb] off for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 3 | Had the recession been staved off for longer , support for the Scottish Nationalists — now at 31 p.c. in the polls and only seven points behind Labour — might not have been as strong . |
| 4 | Vast areas of Rum have been fenced off for century-long experiment to re-create the natural woodland environment . |
| 5 | He found a place in sight of one of the park 's two lakes where a small plantation of young trees had been fenced off for protection . |
| 6 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 7 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 8 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 9 | His been crossed off for ever , . |
| 10 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 11 | Gorazde , home to up to 70,000 residents and refugees , has been cut off for months and under fierce attack for 17 days . |
| 12 | And that 's what they 've been cut off for . |
| 13 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |
| 14 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 15 | After a job which had taken up all of her energies , Elaine did n't realise how long she would need to do all the jobs she had been putting off for years . |
| 16 | In fact , you can use your Steamatic to tackle those tough and often unpleasant jobs that you may have been putting off for ages . |
| 17 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 18 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 19 | The reader 's time and money would be better spent reading that classic novel you have been putting off for years . |
| 20 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 21 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 22 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 23 | He arrived in the West Country after a long train journey from his Cleveland home to admit that the Fedora , ever-present symbol of Crystal Palace 's 1976 FA Cup run , has long since been auctioned off for £1,500 to charity . |
| 24 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 25 | He climbed them sadly until finally he reached a low corridor , which many years ago had been decorated in dark brown : the paint had been flaking off for years . |
| 26 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 27 | Cantona should have been sent off for poking Fairclough , BBC did n't show that . |
| 28 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
| 29 | Koeman should have been sent off for a deliberate foul on Platt ( who actually got 5.9 for the skill in making it look much worse ) . |
| 30 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |