Example sentences of "been cut [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 2 | When Menelik founded Addis Ababa in 1889 the countryside had been forested with juniper and wild olive , but these had soon been cut down for firewood and building material , whereupon Menelik announced that he was going to move his capital for the third time . |
| 3 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |
| 4 | He might have been cut out of cardboard , she thought , as she led him across the hall and into the dining -room , where she introduced him to Susan . |
| 5 | ‘ Experience in the bus industry has shown that white collar jobs have been cut by between 25–30pc and this would be repeated under privatisation of British Rail . ’ |
| 6 | He wore a coat and a scarf because the electricity had been cut off at lunchtime . |
| 7 | Aid trucks have been stopped from reaching Muslim areas there for a month by the Bosnian Croats who control the roads ; 1.3m people have been cut off from aid . |
| 8 | I played dumb , having been cut off in mid-flow . |
| 9 | Lane 15 shows a marker of Dcm enzyme ; this part of the gel had been cut off before fluorography and stained separately with Coomassie blue . |