Example sentences of "cut [pers pn] off " in BNC.

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1 They wo n't really cut me off , will they ? ’
2 This is why he does not cut them off , ’ said an aide to the Prince in Bangkok last week .
3 With abused children the immediate and undisputed need is for protection but , in achieving this , we may cut them off from cherished family and community links , an isolation that may prove damaging .
4 Individualised programmes , alternative activities and simplified worksheets , when they are directed at certain children can cut them off from their peers as effectively as if they had been withdrawn .
5 Or maybe we can simply cut them off from one another until they surrender . ’
6 After pulling up the curtain to the desired width , tie the cords neatly but do not cut them off .
7 Yes I know , but we 're not er we wo n't fiddle about with them until we get well on to the way because if we do that now we got ta take the welder up , you 've only got ta cut them off again because they 're in the way for the rest of the bloody coaches .
8 However , if your circumstances change , and you can not keep to an arrangement , tell the fuel supplier , who should not cut you off without offering you another arrangement or a pre-payment meter .
9 We shall cut her off . ’
10 The young Beatrice Webb was convinced of the importance of family life for women and during the 1880s desperately desired an intimate relationship with the leading politician , Joseph Chamberlain , yet she knew that to marry him would cut her off for ever from the purposeful life of work that she also wanted .
11 She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country …
12 The blood always belonged to God , for ‘ I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls … whosoever eateth any manner of blood , I will set my face against that soul … and will cut him off from among his people ’ ( Lev .
13 But he knew she 'd cut him off .
14 She said , ‘ In case nothing came of it , I could cut him off . ’
15 But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ?
16 Then again she was grabbing the plait , screeching now , ‘ I 'll cut it off .
17 He once told me that if his right hand knew what his left was doing , he would cut it off . ’
18 But maybe , if you could cut it off from there .
19 Yeah , give me the knife and I 'll cut it off
20 Yeah , I 'll cut it off .
21 How , how she , how 's she gon na cut it off if he 's an ice cream salesman ?
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