Example sentences of "cut [pers pn] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mist cut them off from the rest of the field . |
| 2 | He was determined to get behind the Russians and cut them off from the east . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She finds our convent hateful because it cuts her off from the light , the air , and the sun to which she is accustomed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She is a Christian which by silly standards should cut her off from the people in our predominantly Buddhist country … |
| 10 | But did it cut him off from the guidance he needed ? |
| 11 | George was impressed with the new man 's knowledge of sheep , appreciating how quickly he spotted a sick or lame sheep and how neatly he and Meg could cut it out from the herd for attention . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 15 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |