Example sentences of "off from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her relationship with her father , a pushy parent intent on moulding his daughter into a prodigious pianist , is perceptively drawn , as is her self-destructive decision to cut herself off from music after her marriage , where the only outlets for her frustration are manic housework and an unsatisfying affair . |
| 2 | The helicopter took off from South Wales an hour after the Special Branch had spoken to Major Michael Harvey . |
| 3 | Conran never really switches off from work , because he surrounds himself by objects that are beautifully designed . |
| 4 | He took the day off from work specially to come with me . |
| 5 | While redundancy rights can sometimes arise in the context of men being laid off from work or put on short time , in the case of a business executive , redundancy almost always involves a dismissal . |
| 6 | You feel bad about having to take time off from work because of the children , e.g. sickness or a school function . |
| 7 | Many should have been laid off from work as a consequence of the government 's deflationary policies . |
| 8 | Edward gets every fourth day off from work , Leroy gets off every sixth day . |
| 9 | He took mornings off from work to inspect houses of character in Ealing , imposing residences in Hendon , and important properties in select residential districts just thirty minutes from Waterloo . |
| 10 | So I thought that there was plenty of time as this is my first day off from work . |
| 11 | They wept on their last day of work : ‘ I felt terrible ’ ; ‘ it seemed as though you were suddenly cut off from life . ’ |
| 12 | The middle class may shut themselves off from life in a mental suburb of self-righteousness , |
| 13 | The most powerful impact of TV 's hidden curriculum is simply that of keeping people switched off from life outside the living-room . |
| 14 | I put it off from day to day out of pity for myself . |
| 15 | Colleagues , great credibility should go to John Prescott , Shadow Transport Secretary , who has demanded that all foreign registered tankers should provide details of routes when they set off from port so that all operators can be dealt with . |
| 16 | got the er three months later they received thirteen hundred pound pay off from insurance Commercial Union and promptly bought a replacement car . |
| 17 | Then went off from stud groom , from there I went to be head lad with Sammy . |
| 18 | The Oxfordshire volunteers had set off from Split inland . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've got the day off from school . ’ |
| 20 | They would trip off from school at four o'clock on a Friday , bright-eyed and singing Marc Bolan hits , and return glassy-eyed and forlorn on a Monday , having woken up on Sunday morning in a ditch with a bull-necked squaddie from Preston called Steve , with tobacco breath and boils on his neck . |
| 21 | ‘ As you see , I spend all my time with my glasses , but apart from me there 's the coastguard who does his patrol every morning , there are two gentlemen from the town who never miss walking out here for their morning constitutional and on Saturdays , there 's the children , off from school … |
| 22 | ‘ Some people think the Christmas holiday is the 10 days we just had off from school , but I think it 's more than that . |
| 23 | ‘ How did you get the day off from school ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I thought perhaps things would be better if we had some time away from each other , so I agreed , even though it meant her taking time off from school before the end of term . |
| 25 | — GRAEME Hall , who is joining Arsenal next month as an apprentice professional , signed off from school athletics with a fine double in the shot and javelin before helping Stockton to victory in the intermediate relay . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation . |
| 28 | The first , and hardest to resist , was that Charles Frezeli , another MC/10 agent , had just been assassinated in Beirut , leaving three others cut off from contact who had to be brought out before they , too , were killed or induced to talk . |
| 29 | You have cut yourself off from contact with him ? ’ |
| 30 | French nationals were evacuated by French army helicopter from both towns , which were now virtually cut off from contact with the outside world . |