Example sentences of "[vb base] off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 11.15 a.m. the 29 enthusiastic players teed off from a few tees . |
| 2 | The defensive manoeuvre behind it is something like this : if I do n't acknowledge that this thing has happened then I do n't have to believe it is true ; I wo n't have to understand what has occurred if I hold off from consciously realizing that it has happened . |
| 3 | They both hold off from what action there is . |
| 4 | When nuclear family segments break off from the joint family for one reason or another , the values of the joint family nevertheless continue to plague them . |
| 5 | Sometimes quite large ‘ solid ’ blocks break off from the flow , with the same kind of clean fracture , and then , since they are still very hot , continue to flow slightly ! |
| 6 | Grazing animals , such as deer and antelope , regularly break off from feeding and lift their heads to sniff the air for any scent of danger . |
| 7 | As is well known , the Italians are soccer mad and so it is a fair bet that come Saturday , Michaelangelo would forsake the Cistern Chapel and Leonardo Da Vinci break off from designing the clockwork egg slicer and instead be found occupying the terraces of Inter-Milan or Juventus . |
| 8 | Ovid by the Black Sea , cut off from native speech , he wrote . |
| 9 | The trouble with you is , he said , that you 've grown fat in your little cocoon here in London , cut off from the realities of the world . |
| 10 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 11 | Such was the frail nature of the Belorussian working class , cut off from its metropolitan Russian brothers by a broad sea of peasants . |
| 12 | Cut off from regular feeding-points , subjected to atrocious public transport conditions , and more prone to the cold and disease , up to half of the migrants died in transit on the railways . |
| 13 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 14 | Without proper treatment and support , many end up homeless , unemployed for long periods , and cut off from their families . |
| 15 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 16 | Cut off from his inspiration , he endlessly rehashes songs from his American era . |
| 17 | Islands are of particular theoretical interest because nature reserves and lakes are also , effectively , islands ; limited areas , cut off from similar areas . |
| 18 | Modi , cut off from his family 's allowance by the war , needed the money . |
| 19 | Cut off from normal social intercourse with the adult world , relieved of inhibition by the ethos of the Permissive Society , the students were apt to run wild , indulging in promiscuous sex and experimenting with drugs , or else they turned melancholy mad . |
| 20 | Former Midland carworkers and Tyneside shipbuilders seemed by contrast worn out , despairingly lost , cut off from former workmates in their conurbations . |
| 21 | Two separate but converging stories are recounted in alternating chapters : the story of the White Russian Preobrajensky regiment under the command of Prince Ypsilanti , which for two years , cut off from contact with the outside world , marches through Siberia trying to reach the Tsar , and that of Tsar Nicholas II himself and his family in their last months , especially during their confinement at Ekaterinburg . |
| 22 | Many such families are living in abject poverty at home or as refugees abroad , cut off from family and friends . |
| 23 | Cut off from her , with his father and stepmother both dying while he was still a young man , John several times tried to live with a man he loved , but it always ended in disappointment . |
| 24 | In a crumbling mansion on the edge of a lake from which a mist constantly rises , Roderick Usher and his sister live out their lives cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 25 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 26 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 27 | Cut off from the world for a weekend , what started out as a bit of a laugh for Gordon , Angus , Roy and Neville turns into a carnival of recrimination , backbiting , French cricket and sausages . |
| 28 | In any one institution such nurses are very few , and they find themselves cut off from research nurses elsewhere , as well as from nurses engaged in routine work on the wards . |
| 29 | Cut off from the Reich by the Polish Corridor these people felt themselves to be German and to be threatened by the new Polish state . |
| 30 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |