Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] off by [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 2 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 3 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 4 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 5 | Turkey is the third of those three NATO countries , along with Greece and Germany , which had been sliced off by the cold war from a familiar next-door world . |