Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dinner , the talk , the songs , the enviable lovingness of George and Catherine would be a memory , happy , but cut off from her own life as clearly as the fell top was separated from the lake . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Central Powers were virtually besieged and cut off from their new ally , Turkey , which had entered the war in October 1914 . |
| 3 | Murray 's awkwardness was again betrayed by a blush that spread upwards from his weather-reddened neck . |
| 4 | Using all the words that come to you spontaneously and in sequence " spray " your information ( names , facts , concepts ) , however irrelevant or bizarre , along lines that run outwards from your central idea . |
| 5 | The pebble beach is dirtier than they realize but when they stand up from it clinging shell-dust and subversive oil-slicks and persistent grime will fall away from their white robes , leaving them untouched , pristine , still-saintly . |
| 6 | Soft golden sands , blue skies , warm sea , a little nightlife , a friendly hotel and Citalia — the classic get away from it all holiday . |
| 7 | The ideal setting for a quiet , peaceful get away from it all holiday . |
| 8 | Under the same management as the Village and White House , the delightful Chengmon Village is on a beautiful beach , a perfect place for a get away from it all holiday . |
| 9 | Weekends are a good time to knock up those extra miles and get away from your measured route — into the country , etc . |
| 10 | The English colonies looked rather like colonies of the Greek type , where emigrants set out from their native city to launch a new city and , while often cherishing a deep affection for the city that they had left , did not acknowledge a political obligation to obey it . |
| 11 | They are well aware of the amount of variation possible in ‘ scientifically produced ’ data and look with a certain scepticism upon laboratory results , especially when they diverge markedly from their own intuition or their expectations based on past knowledge . |
| 12 | His lack of family feeling and unquestioning assumption that it must always be sacrificed to necessities of State emerge clearly from his political testaments of 1752 and 1768 , the most revealing of all statements of his basic ideas . |
| 13 | In time , plants were domesticated and selected so that they differ greatly from their wild ancestors , some so much so that their ancestors can not now be recognized . |
| 14 | While congregants stay away from their formal places of worship , more and more seek their spirituality from radio and television programmes . |
| 15 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 16 | Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects derive directly from their critical campaigns , except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956 , and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for ‘ realism ’ seemed to flow . |
| 17 | Start listening to the subtle thoughts and feelings , the slight shifts in energy , which bubble up from your inner self . |
| 18 | Many drug users steal even from their own families and best friends . |
| 19 | His prominence in his time and his lack of consequence for it both derive ultimately from his pleasant mediocrity . |
| 20 | Disappointment ! dash not from my trembling hand the bowl which almost touches my lips . |
| 21 | I tried to ask the Prime Minister , in a parliamentary question , to give details of the additional charters in the various service areas which arise directly from his own citizens charter and to say when each of the new charters would be published . |
| 22 | ‘ I keep the arms still and move off from your downstage shoulder . |
| 23 | ‘ All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs , while the priest actually lives in the parish . |
| 24 | ‘ You reach down from your exalted position , beyond their understanding , and put your — the things on the ends of your forelimbs … . ’ |
| 25 | Private contractors take over from them next month , and have said they wo n't take on Tony and George Sabin . |
| 26 | As I said earlier , I 'm pleased that you 've come to Girton for this symposium , come away from your normal surroundings in the perhaps stuffy office in some district council to the beauty of the wide open spaces here out in the countryside . |
| 27 | If they come out from their defensive withdrawal and hesitantly accept the affection they are likely to need to test it out , to see whether it can withstand some heavy strain or whether , like past ties , it can be broken . |
| 28 | Can the Directors of the Court of the Bank see down from their lofty offices to the struggles that the Bank Assistants endure/ Is it possible that the clouds get in the way ? |
| 29 | Students learn best from their own mistakes ; they should be told when and why they have gone wrong , and how their approach to a problem should be redirected . |