Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 2 | The car took them away from the town , out through the flat fields and the irrigation pipes that ran along beside the road . |
| 3 | Security considerations kept him away from the frontline base of Vitez , but soldiers from the mountain stronghold travelled 30 miles through bandit country to see him . |
| 4 | The Haldane partisan , Morris , moreover , said openly that he defied Captain Cunningham and all his friends and supporters to remove him again from the town . |
| 5 | But for heaven 's sake do n't let fear drive you away from the stage . |
| 6 | The barman dragged himself away from the knot of men deep in conversation about the price fetched by a piece of land across the road . |
| 7 | With his powers of observation , his smooth , fast-moving narratives and his ability to make characters live on the screen , Hitchcock set himself apart from the rest of British cinema . |
| 8 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 9 | Jeopardy pushed himself away from the wall , his arms still folded . |
| 10 | Simon pushed himself away from the table and went back to the hissing kettle to make his coffee . |
| 11 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 12 | Stephen manoeuvred them away from the formal office seating around his desk towards some more relaxed sofas and chairs grouped around a low table . |
| 13 | The technique of rotational coherence spectroscopy illustrates particularly well the advantages of working in the time , rather than the frequency , domain — even if some of its most useful applications move us away from the femtosecond world . |
| 14 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 15 | Seizing Araminta 's arm , Theda dragged her away from the door . |
| 16 | The author makes it plain from the outset that he has no interest in trying to convince bar-stool pseudoscientists that they are wrong in believing that early cave dwellers battled marauding dinosaurs and that astrology tells all . |
| 17 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
| 18 | Graham pushed him away from the entrance and reached behind the door to unsheath the poniard . |
| 19 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 20 | Maxie withdrew himself reluctantly from the excitement of the football game he was watching on television . |
| 21 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 22 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 23 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |
| 24 | He was standing aloof , black-haired , broad-shouldered and narrow-hipped , taller than the average Italian , an air of contained , but absolute authority setting him apart from the noisy , gesticulating mob . |
| 25 | An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) . |
| 26 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 27 | Val 's journey took her away from the village , through arid plains and between inert and inanimate peaks . |
| 28 | Such forces carry him away from the mainstream of Caribbean life into the tributaries of a distinct black youth culture . |
| 29 | In the event that the children were to return , the issue before the Family Court in Australia would arise upon the mother 's application for leave to remove them permanently from the State of Victoria to bring them back to live with her in this country . |
| 30 | Connors led him away from the others . |