Example sentences of "been [verb] off by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 2 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |
| 3 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 4 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 5 | The blinking was a reflex which could equally well have been set off by a puff of wind or a flash of light . |
| 6 | I 've worked in a number of centres where the fire alarm has been set off by the heat from our lights . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 9 | Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May . |
| 10 | The Guardian of April 25 commented that the Hungarian government hoped that " the new law will provide the much-needed impetus for Hungary 's privatization programme and unlock the door to foreign investors who have so far been put off by the uncertainty over who owns what " . |
| 11 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 12 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |