Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] from [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I told him that when I got back from this holiday he must come round and have a meal . |
| 2 | I tell you why I get up , I get up because I came back from that conference . |
| 3 | But I kept away from that side of the coast , so that the people of Blefuscu would not see me . |
| 4 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 5 | She turned away from that thought , unwilling to look it in the face . |
| 6 | When a they were sent home from we went home from this quarry then , and the everybody went home so the the were forty of us in altogether . |
| 7 | As the years passed , they moved away from each other to a greater or less degree . |
| 8 | They drew away from each other , so mutually sated with explosive body contact that both needed a temporary reprieve . |
| 9 | They danced away from each other , they darted towards each other . |
| 10 | They turned away from each other , and returned to their separate houses . |
| 11 | And they won , because employers could not find substitute labour and because , with demand for commodities high , they lost heavily from any interruptions of production . |
| 12 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 13 | Now , as they sat across from each other at the shady table with the heady scent of jasmine sweetening the hot air , Ruth know that it could n't go on like this much longer . |
| 14 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 15 | I have my doubts erm in , in that erm certainly not within one nation erm I , I agree with you entirely that it 's contradictory to Marxism in that erm what happened in erm with Mao was that erm he turned away from any internationalist socialist concept . |
| 16 | His practice , however , was to be mainly in Scotland , and it developed rapidly from that time . |
| 17 | ‘ He rang up from some baths or some place like that , said he 'd be back soon . |
| 18 | And he went straight from this place , to catch his plane ? ’ |