Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] off from the " in BNC.

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1 Luke moved through a doorway that lead off from the right of the hallway and disappeared from view .
2 It came from a tributary passage that lead off from the main corridor at a curious angle .
3 She made her way down the corridor that led off from the bar room , continually glancing over her shoulder , half expecting to see either her father or her uncle behind her .
4 The interiors of a number of parish churches were similarly transformed as the Laudian bishops campaigned vigorously for the erection of altars positioned permanently at the east end of the chancel and railed off from the nave .
5 The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness .
6 Rome , unlike Avignon ( and , indeed , many other cities ) was inconveniently placed for easy relations with most of Europe and cut off from the north-west , where the papacy 's influence was strongest , by the great mountain range of the Alps .
7 The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair .
8 She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing .
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