Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] [adv prt] from [art] " in BNC.

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1 Why then cut ourselves off from the one source in which may be found an authoritative statement of the intention with which the legislation is placed before Parliament ?
2 Maybe they saw ‘ little water-trees , starwort and milfoil and crow foot ’ ; and ‘ green caterpillars which let themselves down from the boughs by silk ropes for no reason at all ’ ; and ‘ great spiders with crowns and crosses marked on their backs ’ .
3 I slid Lewis 's helmet on and cut myself off from the world .
4 That God 's creatures should revolt against him , and so cut themselves off from the ground of their own being , is an ‘ impossible possibility ’ which has nonetheless been actualised .
5 Gazzer watched her lower herself down from the top of the gates and edge out on one of the beams .
6 I push myself off from the wall and walk across .
7 Then they watched him pull himself up from the support of the couch and , keeping his eyes on Emma until he had passed her , he strode from the room .
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