Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is operated in the same way as the trumpet , i.e. by means of three valves , and differs only from it in tone-quality ( owing to its wider bore and larger mouthpiece ) , which is on the whole rounder and less brassy than that of the trumpet . |
| 2 | It was Wharton 's 14th win in 15 fights — the other bout ended in a draw — but he seemed to be allowing the fight to slip away from him through uncharacteristic casualness in the fifth and sixth rounds . |
| 3 | A chain came down from them to another set of wheels and cogs nearer the bottom . |
| 4 | Shoe-buckles , harness fragments and tunic buttons spread outwards from them for many yards when the gradients become steep , marking places where panting packmen and their contemporaries sought easier paths up the slopes . |
| 5 | His arms held , though now she had wedged her hands in between her breasts and the hard wall of his chest and was pushing away from him with all her might . |
| 6 | I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste . |
| 7 | A phase of tranquillity and knowledge , of acceptance and harmony , when jealousies and rivalries would drop away from them like dead leaves ? |
| 8 | He was shouting and people were breaking away from him on both sides . |
| 9 | And then I started to wonder if what I had seen had some connection with the secret telephone calls Jean-Claude made , and the evenings he spent apart from me with nameless friends . |
| 10 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps I 'll even have time to persuade you not to run away from me after all , mus . ’ |
| 12 | During the course of a conversation , her voice would slowly fade away , and she would lapse into silence , staring away from him with blank eyes , a wistful smile on her face . |
| 13 | And how the mine at the bottom of the shaft was not always dark , but lofty , like a cathedral , and lit up , but with dark tunnels running out from it on all sides . |
| 14 | Sarah struggled away from him with unreasonable disappointment and anger , all joy gone . |
| 15 | Philip 's Mum took over from her at two . |
| 16 | And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant . |
| 17 | She felt as though control was slipping away from her in some obscure way . |
| 18 | She stepped down from the carriage and was going to leave him , when he stopped her and said , ‘ You 're not going to turn away from me like that , dear ? |
| 19 | So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson . |
| 20 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 21 | He backed away from her in mock fear , but he was still laughing at her and though she meant every word , she could n't continue to be angry with him . |