Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] from [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Soviet and American leaders , by the late 1980s , had a common interest in a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war and in an international agreement guaranteeing freedom of movement in the Persian Gulf , but neither could necessarily manipulate events in the region to its advantage and neither , perhaps , quite understood the nature of a popular movement so far removed from its own cultural assumptions . |
| 2 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 3 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 4 | The reaction of the urban proletariat was natural ; one can not safely deduce from it any decisive change in attitude towards death and survival . |
| 5 | The dullness she had felt in her exhaustion became a kind of sickness now , as for the second time that day she once again flew from her own body and split into two . |
| 6 | He still managed to get up the stairs in the pavilion to help launch Berkshire 's new sponsorship , but then perhaps he thought that the name of the sponsors — the Head Partnership — was far enough removed from his own problems to be of no concern . |
| 7 | Her piercing household face swam across his eyeline , even more changed from its former self than now , and hermetic in its enthusiasm for nursery objects properly researched by child psychiatrists to be fit for the middle-class children who would lose them without a pang . |
| 8 | ‘ We have tamed her on our travels , I think , and yet not taken from her that which is precious . ’ |
| 9 | These examples of animal senses are relatively easy for us to comprehend as they are not too far removed from our own experience . |