Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car took them away from the town , out through the flat fields and the irrigation pipes that ran along beside the road . |
| 2 | But for heaven 's sake do n't let fear drive you away from the stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jeopardy pushed himself away from the wall , his arms still folded . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Over 100 Labour Members of Parliament began to urge the government to dissociate itself entirely from the war . |
| 13 | Val 's journey took her away from the village , through arid plains and between inert and inanimate peaks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rohmer was surprisingly strong , but the impetus of Cardiff 's lunge spun him away from the girl . |
| 16 | Then the ship tore herself away from the reef , back broken , thirty feet of bow section diving free . |
| 17 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
| 18 | Unless a mother divorces herself completely from the essential tasks of child care , handing over her baby to others , her role will keep her in touch with the most basic elements of life ! |
| 19 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |
| 20 | Foolish because if you do not tell me , I have the power to take you away from the river bank , away from the sun and light , and shut you in the caracol for ever . ’ |