Example sentences of "[adv] from [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Léonie edged away from her on the warm plastic seat . |
| 2 | Admonished and instructed by turns , I occasionally had the tambourine snatched away from me by the Second Son , who would rap it sharply against the wheel . |
| 3 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 4 | The hounds , however , having wriggled under and through the gate , were still running , streaming away from them across the next field as the fox headed for the nearby covert . |
| 5 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 6 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 7 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 8 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
| 9 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 10 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 11 | The People 's Party should also be benefiting from the little-noticed collapse of the Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) , a party that took votes away from it at the general election in 1989 . |
| 12 | ‘ Still , could n't you get away from it for the next week or so — till she 's gone back ? ’ |
| 13 | In whatever fashion the contrast is formulated ( we might say , for example , that the two revolutions — political and industrial — which had inspired the new political science began to move in different directions , towards greater equality in one case , away from it in the other ) it embodies a large part of the substance of political enquiry and of political doctrines from the nineteenth century to the present time . |
| 14 | So Kenny Parker took over from me for the second half . |
| 15 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 16 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |