Example sentences of "[verb] away from the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cole ( 1986 ) has investigated twelve high-use and twelve low-use campsites located away from the main tourist access routes in three desert vegetation types consisting of desert scrub , catclaw ( Acacia greggi ) and piñon-juniper ( Pinus edulie–Juniperus osteosperma ) communities . |
| 2 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 3 | With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme . |
| 4 | Fun 's the last thing I feel like ! ’ she replied swiftly , trying to pull away from the deceptive strength of his hold . |
| 5 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 6 | Parts of the rudder which sank away from the main hull corroded as could be expected , so the answer must lie with the hull itself . |
| 7 | Tribe caught them up as they were attacking a pair of two-seaters which were climbing away from the British Line , if there still was one , having just bombed an artillery position . |
| 8 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 9 | This dislocated alternation of joy and fear , anxiety and compulsion , of being outside and inside , and of time that is distorted away from the normal sequence , is difficult to put into words , later words , linear words : but once , in a friend 's flat in Holland Park , I heard the opening passages of a gramophone record which almost caught it : Bartok 's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion . |
| 10 | Once she allowed herself to stray away from the main concourse , lured by the strains of a string quartet , to find herself in a large square dominated by a giant plane tree . |
| 11 | As the car moved away from the Elizabethan pile Marler glanced in his wing mirror . |
| 12 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 13 | They then moved away from the main circuit , onto a piece of rough ground for the ‘ Formula Finesse Auto Test ’ . |
| 14 | ANDREW put down his binoculars and moved away from the grey lace that hung from the curve of the curtain-wire in front of his window . |
| 15 | We 've , we 've kind of shied away from the whole thing about image and about fat |
| 16 | At last they had her suitcases strapped up and were ready to drive away from the little haven they had shared . |
| 17 | The mould is broken away from the hardened bronze , the ends of the tie-rods sawn off , faults patched and the surface cleaned ; and though much fine detail was completed in the model , more can be chiselled on the cold bronze . |
| 18 | The problem , however , was that not enough of the gaseous nebula could in fact have broken away from the embryonic sun , as later generations of astronomers were quick to point out . |
| 19 | On July 23 gunmen assassinated in Beirut Walid Khaled , an official of the Fatah Revolutionary Council , which had broken away from the mainstream Fatah in 1973 under the leadership of Sabri Khalil al Banna ( also known as Abu Nidal ) . |
| 20 | Mahmud had broken away from the main crocodile and was engaged in earnest conversation with the small fat boy . |
| 21 | Two indistinct figures had broken away from the struggling mass and were desperately flailing towards Christine and the safe area at the other end of the executive transporter . |
| 22 | Corgi is trying a new approach and has broken away from the single figure on the cover , giving this one an old master oil painting reproduction which makes it more sophisticated . |
| 23 | That is to say , malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body . |
| 24 | What does it mean when rape and sexual violence are no longer quite so hidden away from the public view ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a little place , ’ Piers was saying , ‘ quite hidden away from the public view , as a matter of fact . |
| 26 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 27 | If , in such a movement , the head meets a brighter light on one side than the other , the animal turns away from the brighter side . |
| 28 | We taxied away from the palm-thatched hut that was proudly styled as Straker 's Cay Airport Terminal Number One . |
| 29 | ‘ Will we have to go away from the white house , and the railway and everything ? ’ |
| 30 | Maybe you have fallen away from the regular practice of your faith ; perhaps , you have a feeling of hurt or of being let down or ignored — well , it 's easy to come back again . |