Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] from [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When the marker of comparison is deleted , the text reflects the perceptions of the people , as on the occasion when Lok and Fa hear an echo , and the narrator reports " their words had flown away from them like a flock of birds that circled and multiplied mysteriously … they stood … while the birds flew farther and farther away … ( p. 81 ) . |
| 4 | They had homes and jobs in their own country but these have been burned and stripped away from them through no fault of their own . |
| 5 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 6 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 7 | A well was sunk in the back garden , and water could be pumped up from it into the kitchen . |
| 8 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 9 | The whole upper valley of the river Maran stretched away from them in a succession of rich pasture , coppice , and deer park . |
| 10 | The roof of the City stretched away from him like a vast field of snow , empty but for the small group of officials who were gathered , heads bowed , beside the open hatchway . |
| 11 | So there it lay , 300 miles to the north , utterly cut off from us by the hurricanes which — according to the local weather men — were raging back and forth nearby . |
| 12 | It is argued that lone parents have children taken away from them as a punishment for their failure to cope with society 's shortcomings and its failure to offer adequate support . |
| 13 | The latter told of a hack TV gag writer ( Jason Robards Jr ) trying to prevent his precocious twelve-year-old nephew from being taken away from him by a Child Welfare Officer ( William Daniels ) . |
| 14 | Well it came so suddenly you see there 's erm as I said playing football , and then this accident and then he he was sort of taken away from us in no time you know . |
| 15 | His mouth closed swiftly over her anguished lips , to reassure her that his need was real and would n't be snatched away from her in a punishing gesture . |
| 16 | USER FRIENDLY came within an ace of a French fortune yesterday as the Arc was snatched away from her in the shadow of the winning post . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She whimpered and shifted against him , and instantly he released her and straightened away from her with a ragged sigh . |
| 19 | Although in this case Mr Benn had backed off from them in the beginning . |