Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] off from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the wind drifting off from the island . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not right for politicians to offer a sanitised campaign cut off from the people they 're asking to elect them , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 4 | Having just wed , and her husband laid off from the cotton mill only four days since , her wages were now the only ones coming in , and she lived in fear of being put out of work . |
| 5 | Something glassy and indistinct passed over Rincewind 's head , throwing up a cloud of ashes from the fire , and the pig carcass took off from the spit and rocketed into the sky . |
| 6 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 7 | There were rumours that a pied-billed grebe had settled on ‘ Little Sea ’ , a freshwater lagoon cut off from the coast by the gradual build-up of sand dunes . |
| 8 | He dashed into the nearest shop doorway at the cab took off from the kerb again and accelerated away down the street . |
| 9 | They have taken steps to stop water draining off from the mini-lake , and done an inordinate amount of plodging in the wetland . |
| 10 | One popular route started off from the highly reactive unsaturated hydrocarbon , ethylene ( or ethene ) , H 2 C=CH 2 , which was readily and cheaply available from petroleum refineries . |
| 11 | A natural response to this state of affairs would be to say that theory cut off from the writing of literature is no more than a sterile academicism . |
| 12 | In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world . |
| 13 | In the attempt to win society 's approval by a cultured ministry that had both sweetness and light , would Nonconformity produce a ministry cut off from the faithful ? |
| 14 | You ca n't see down that part of the cloister leading off from the chapel into the convent . |
| 15 | Each speaker springs off from the one before rather than opposes him . |
| 16 | According to WWF team leader John McKinnon , the reserve is " like a lost world cut off from the rest of Indo-China " . |
| 17 | Each one of them is in some way cut off from the rest of society : Hywel because he 's a miserable sod , Angharad because something went awfully wrong , and Beuno because he 's fallen in love with God . ’ |
| 18 | It was relatively easy to do in the first years of the regime , with a war- and hunger-cowed populace , a subsistence-level economy , and a country cut off from the outside world . |
| 19 | But , in the early days of production on the site , an order sent off from the mill to London was accidentally read and returned as tweed . |
| 20 | The landed gentry of Europe have become a leisured class cut off from the peasantry and increasingly divorced from the authority of scripture . |
| 21 | NEXT Thursday ( 21 February ) , an Ariane rocket lifts off from the European Space Centre in French Guiana to put the second Astra satellite into orbit at 19° East . |