Example sentences of "[vb base] off [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | as if Pike was behind an imaginary glass wall , cut off from the rest of the Church . |
| 32 | I cut off from the lane up towards Great Coum and the Megger Stones . |
| 33 | The Jews were in exile after 586 BC and found themselves cut off from the temple . |
| 34 | 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 ’ . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The area became marginalised , cut off from the hub of business activity across the river . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Always in a dream , cut off from the world — and forever being dreadfully wounded over the slightest thing . |
| 42 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 43 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 44 | Lee stood , stranded , cut off from the future . |
| 45 | Rome , unlike Avignon ( and , indeed , many other cities ) was inconveniently placed for easy relations with most of Europe and cut off from the north-west , where the papacy 's influence was strongest , by the great mountain range of the Alps . |
| 46 | Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy . |
| 47 | The surface of the earth is finite in extent but it does n't have a boundary or edge : if you sail off into the sunset , you do n't fall off the edge or run into a singularity . |
| 48 | It is still early and you can drive out towards Apt and branch off across the Lubéron . |
| 49 | However , the real action is when you jump into the cockpit and zoom off down the runway to strike a blow against the evil Quadaffi . |
| 50 | I watched you make off along the cliff path , as if you were making for Otters ' Bay . |
| 51 | There may be one or two when we might just say well perhaps just a little bit more volume but it 's not perhaps just er slacken off on the pace a little bit . |
| 52 | ‘ Push off from the banisters . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | We make the most of this and scoot off to the hospital . |
| 55 | The horses lose interest and sashay off into the night . |
| 56 | I 'd parked Armstrong around the side of Sedgeley House in one of the diagonal streets that run off to the Edgware Road . |
| 57 | Run off with the milkman , disowned Billy , got religion ; but I did n't think so . |
| 58 | Hilda Hewitt had copies of two posters run off on the Office photo-copier . |
| 59 | Hilda Hewitt had copies of two posters run off on the Office photo-copier . |
| 60 | There were plenty of Garda around , and there ought to have been plenty more , as I saw a group of wild children steal chocolates from a shop and then run off down the road . |