Example sentences of "cut off [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People pushed and shoved , stared at his madder lake suit , trousers cut off at the knee . |
| 2 | Cut off at the neck ! |
| 3 | Oliver was close behind as she ran towards the pedlar , then cut off to the side . |
| 4 | In modern English , moral and mental conditions are spoken of in more or less abstract terms ( anger , suspicion , forcefulness and so on ) cut off for the most part , from their etymological roots … |
| 5 | Aid workers say Central Bosnia , cut off for the first time this Winter by the war between Croats and Muslims , is facing a humanitarian catastrophe . |
| 6 | loving 's got to stop Cut off by the |
| 7 | This figure includes skin divers , bathers and water skiers , people and vehicles cut off by the tide and casualties who had fallen from cliffs or man-made structures . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The two of us stand next to his second hole unable to distinguish sky and lake and cut off from the other pair . |
| 10 | Cut off from the only social contact and emotional support he had known , he went downhill and ended up being arrested for stealing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The French soldiers , cut off from the other guests both linguistically and emotionally , spoke only amongst themselves , occasionally voluble , more often morose . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |
| 17 | On her lonely perch , cut off from the amiable mindless warmth of the mob , Jess shifted , taking a cautious step back towards the edge of the counter . |
| 18 | Lee stood , stranded , cut off from the future . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the one hand we can see it as a master stroke of the Devil : Christians and humans everywhere have been forced into private enclaves cut off from the public world and each other . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 24 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 28 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 29 | Cut off from the outside world , the Spaniard needed an intimate social life and the interest it supplied to conversation . |
| 30 | Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction . |