Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeez , it looks like all the players and wives nip off down the bank for a quick gas up north . |
| 2 | As bishop of a major city Avitus was involved in court politics to an extent that Sidonius , cut off from the centre of Visigothic power in Clermont , was not . |
| 3 | Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language , the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But more importantly it is a good starting place for exploring the lesser known eastern valleys which are peaceful , quiet and cut off from the rest of the Lake District . |
| 6 | They both ate , trying not to think about being in the house together , cut off from the rest of the world . |
| 7 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 8 | as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church . |
| 9 | At regional level , too , new sources of authority emerged ; in the coastal Basque provinces , cut off from the heartland of Republican Spain , the separate Basque Republic of Euskadi came into existence ; in Catalonia , where Companys reached an accommodation with the CNT , an anti-fascist Militia Committee ran affairs independently of Madrid ; and in October Aragon became an autonomous CNT fief administered by its own regional ‘ Council ’ . |
| 10 | Of course it is one thing to state baldly that modern Christians are often ineffectual in their witness and live in a privatised world , cut off from the mainstream of social life , but it is quite another thing to make out a case that it is so . |
| 11 | Tolkien was not by any means cut off from the mainstream of English poetry , though the qualities he valued were not surprise , the mot juste , verbal complexity , but rather a slow probing of the familiar . |
| 12 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |
| 13 | On the contrary , I think it more likely that , cut off from the source of rationality , the Godhead itself , the Devil is evil but irrational . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They career off into the future in a way that is , in one sense , pointless and futile , in another sense progressive and endlessly fascinating to us , the observers . |
| 16 | Act 2 is the object of loud acclaim as the curtain falls , but when Minnie and Dick ride off into the sunset at the end of the opera it seems that the audience has melted away too , and the final ‘ addios ’ fall into silence and emptiness . |
| 17 | Soccer , sidecar racing and hill climbing in sport tonight , which we kick off with the fight for promotion to the first division . |
| 18 | A nurse will bring a white-wrapped bundle which I shall cursorily inspect for gender , then pack off to the nursery for six years . |
| 19 | You can get to us , you can get on at the ba , at the baths and it comes up past Park and you get off , you get off at the end of Wickham Avenue |
| 20 | Last week 's budget about turn certainly ensures that this Flat season and many to follow get off to the sort of flying start it had been very difficult to envisage 12 months ago . |
| 21 | Looking anxiously behind them , the children set off down the street with the nanny . |
| 22 | ‘ All right , Belinda , I 'll drive you , ’ said David and they all set off across the grass to the dodgem stand . |
| 23 | Set off along the road in cloud but the sun soon broke through . |
| 24 | They set off along the coast of Venezuela and Colombia , south to Panama , past Costa Rica and Nicaragua , until finally they reached Honduras , their intended destination . |
| 25 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 26 | I set off to the sound of Mick trying to tune into his sports programme . |
| 27 | The court heard her ordeal began when she and the children set off with the salesman on what they thought would be a family shopping trip . |
| 28 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
| 29 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 30 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |