Example sentences of "[verb] us away from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 2 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 3 | It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our route soon took us away from the stream to open rolling countryside . |
| 6 | As the great machine of modernity spins remorselessly round , it has spun us away from the centre of social existence — community life , government , commerce , industry , education , welfare , leisure — to the peripheral margins of societal life . |
| 7 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If anything could have frightened us away from the proposition it would have been the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to advance a sensible argument on anything at all . |