Sentence examples for had been broken off from inspiring English sources

The shell had been broken off, with a teaspoon he supposed, it was pure curd white and still warm.

They had been broken off only last Thursday, when another trio, reportedly including Mr Entezam, held a working session with the embattled ruler.

The leaders of Israel and the Palestinians met in Washington to restart direct peace talks, which had been broken off for nearly two years.

By contrast, Margaret Thatcher, on becoming prime minister in 1979, restored diplomatic relations with Pinochet's Chile, which had been broken off by the previous Labour government.

On Saturday night, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres resumed meetings with Palestinian officials that had been broken off because of the attacks last week.

His engagement to a young poet, Nancy Stallibrass, had been broken off a few days before the date of the wedding, and he suffered a nervous collapse.

Some of these have been broken off in chunks, one almost back to the wood framing.

The pads are only reddened by winter, and some already have roots, having been broken off by lawn mowing and the like.

Her engagement to Joffrey has been broken off much to her delight but she's not safe yet and hopes to escape the city.

The little mermaid has been decapitated twice, the last time in 1998; an arm has been broken off, though later recovered; she has been spattered with paint and dressed in Muslim garb, including a burqa.

It is roughly six inches high, and its arms and legs have been broken off, but the exhausted, downcast face and emaciated torso of Jesus have been realized with a striking anatomical and psychological realism, creating a heartbreaking pathos.