Example sentences of "[pers pn] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 2 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 3 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 4 | ( I prefer to gently lever them off from the underside with a small screwdriver ) . |
| 5 | They had travelled only a few yards into the dense timber when the silence of the woods closed in about them , cutting them off from the rest of humanity in a claustrophobic world of towering trunks and patches of thick underbrush . |
| 6 | Even in the Elizabethan and Stuart era rural communities in certain regions such as the West Riding of Yorkshire or the West Midlands had an industrial character that marked them off from the societies that have so far been described . |
| 7 | Now the opposing argument to that is that if you create a special environment during the educational phase of a child 's life , then what happens after that for his I mean how far have you then separated them off from the sort of life that they will have to lead thereafter . |
| 8 | Another thing that cut me off from the other kids was going to the grammar school — and having to wear a bright green blazer every day . |
| 9 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 10 | She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country … |
| 11 | Though closing the door shut her off from the rest of the boat , she was still acutely aware of him only inches away on the other side of the deckhead . |
| 12 | The tepidity of most British cinema during the 1950s made Anderson resistant to the values of commercial filmmaking , and this cut him off from the possibility of developing his critical argument through filmmaking . |
| 13 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 14 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 15 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 16 | There is nothing which cuts him off from the early sociologists in his basic assumptions about the importance of instincts and their interaction with men 's cultures . |
| 17 | It was clear to me that his own personal preoccupations , such as had been conveyed to me by Father D'Arcy and hinted at by others , had cut him off from the workings of certain institutions — his unawareness of Collingwood 's preferment was a case in point — and again he wanted to be informed what the young were thinking . |
| 18 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 19 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |
| 20 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 21 | She was a gentle quiet girl , deeply thoughtful , and we hit it off from the start . |
| 22 | In a case like this , it might be best to keep most of the kitchen part of the room to one wall and hive it off from the rest of the area with a long island unit which could incorporate extra work and storage space and possibly a cook top , sink and refrigerator as well . |