Example sentences of "[vb past] off from the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now she has an iris mountain , with Sir Cedric 's and the many more she grew from seed brought back from America , fenced off from the main garden in her ‘ Stalag 13 look ’ . |
| 2 | Yet Lankester often ignored this warning in his own work , and suggested that all forms of life can be ranked into grades defined by the point at which they branched off from the main line of progress towards humankind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They took off from the amphibious assault ship U S S Okinowa on a routine patrol , but a short while later , all voice and radar contact was suddenly lost . |
| 6 | But soon he took off from the earthly tediousness of the concrete for a glide in purer air . |
| 7 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |