Example sentences of "completely [vb pp] off by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally I am completely turned off by ruins . |
| 2 | Sam found himself completely cut off by his own side of the family , who considered he had married beneath him ; while John had a furious row with him because he did not think Sam good enough for Marie . |
| 3 | As rebel fighters of Charles Taylor 's National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) tightened their grip on Monrovia , the city 's Spriggs Payne airport was temporarily closed by mortar fire on Oct. 31 , increasing the isolation of the 700,000 inhabitants of the capital , already completely cut off by land [ see p. 39131 ] . |
| 4 | Thus , in the example shown in Figure 11 , all detectors for words beginning with an R will receive excitatory inputs from the letter detector level , while detectors for all other words will be completely switched off by inhibition . |
| 5 | ‘ Obviously , I was pleased to score against my old club , but the shine was completely taken off by the result , ’ he said . |