Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely veers away from the subject of relationships ( ‘ Go Out And Get 'Em Boy ! ’ , |
| 2 | We eventually got away from the station and camped two hours later near a marsh , where we shot some duck for dinner , and two lily-trotters for our collection . |
| 3 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |
| 4 | As you catch a wave and accelerate down its face you vigorously steer away from the wind . |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 6 | The force is rightly stepping back from the limelight . |
| 7 | Throughout the training , landing out is usually treated as such a serious misdemeanour that the inexperienced pilot is often influenced into trying desperately hard to get back if he either inadvertently drifts away from the site or gets lost during a local soaring flight . |
| 8 | And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement , that may well be enough . |
| 9 | Ten athletes trained by Long came away from the North-East Championships with ten medals , including five golds . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 11 | Erm I suppose what we ought to focus on , is not so much the details of the ethnography so came up from the study , but erm but some of them are almost thieves |
| 12 | But he simply listened , said he was sympathetic , and that Chris could not be expelled , only moved away from the parish . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then you 'd better keep away from the disco , ’ said Willis . |
| 14 | The square was gently raised away from the face . |
| 15 | He had almost resigned himself to the fact that this cop was too cautious to be caught out like the one he had almost jumped five nights previously , when without warning the man below stepped out from the shelter of the deep doorway . |
| 16 | * Take notes , but do n't necessarily copy directly from the original when you do so ( see pp. 41 – 2 ) . |
| 17 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 18 | The strange , abstract and logically fantastic world of the mathematicians remained somewhat isolated both from the general and the scientific public , perhaps more so than before , since its main contact with both , physics ( through physical technology ) , appeared at this stage to have less use for its most advanced and adventurous abstractions than in the great days of the construction of a celestial mechanics . |
| 19 | Lavas become scarcer amongst rocks of more acid compositions and rhyolites are much less abundant than andesites They are highly viscous , never flowing far from their source , and usually merely ooze up from the vent like toothpaste to pile up into short , thick flows and domes . |
| 20 | Actually I find it easier to put in the mortgage details which is page li er pa line three and any outstanding bills and loans and then basically find out from the person how much they need on top of that |
| 21 | Nils may be a good cook , but his time will be better spent away from the galley . |
| 22 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 23 | I could tell you that the eyes were so beautiful they could actually make you feel giddy when he suddenly looked up from the floor and straight at you . |
| 24 | I was seeking a scrap of common ground on which we could mutually back away from the argument . |
| 25 | In the absence of extensive survey material on the attitudes of DUP voters , we can only reason backwards from the platform of the Party to the interests of the people who support it . |
| 26 | After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck . |
| 27 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 28 | A motor extracts air through a replaceable filter and powders are gently drifted away from the operator . |
| 29 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 30 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |