Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] off from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hewlett-Packard Co , which markets Sequoia 's 68040-based fault-tolerant Unix machines as the HP 9000 Series 1200 line , has already backed off from investing new money to protect its investment in the company , where it holds an 8% stake . |
| 2 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 3 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 4 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 5 | As the Japanese mainland became increasingly cut off from its far flung empire in the later stages of the Pacific War , Japanese control in Southeast Asia weakened . |
| 6 | We felt less cut off from society as a whole and I was particularly pleased to be able to listen to good music on a regular basis . |
| 7 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 8 | These firms had either splintered off from American companies — as in the case of Norman Broadbent — or they had been set up on their own from scratch , in a variety of forms such as MSL , EAL , Tyzack , Alexander Hughes , Goddard Kay Rogers , John Stork , Merton and Whitehead Mann , to name but a few . |
| 9 | Bonn still refused to recognise East Germany 's existence and remained diplomatically cut off from countries in Eastern Europe who did recognise her , but trade with Eastern Europe was expanded . |
| 10 | Panama remained physically cut off from the rest of the world yesterday , with the national airport closed and under US control , and the northern border with Costa Rica sealed . |