Example sentences of "[v-ing] away from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl cried out , shrinking away from their struggling figures . |
| 2 | With views across the valley from her studio window , Mary mixes the tranquil scene with rock music blasting away from her portable stereo to produce the best atmosphere in which to undertake her exact art . |
| 3 | ‘ Stunning , ’ she said , admiring the rich purple drapes and acres of gold bunting and surreptitiously easing away from his warm body . |
| 4 | ‘ I told you , ’ she said , looking away from his probing eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's enough , ’ she whispered , looking away from his intense stare in case he read the truth in her eyes and recoiled from it . |
| 6 | You can now start venturing away from your measured route and start looking for additional ways to clock up the extra miles — try walking to the shops instead of driving ; try parking the car further away from work and walking the rest of the way ; or getting off the bus or train one or two stops from your destination and walking the rest of the way . |
| 7 | Bristol C 2 , Leicester 1 LEICESTER 'S promotion hopes took a jolt against a bouyant Bristol City , who under new manager Denis Smith , are pulling away from their own relegation fears . |
| 8 | Increasingly it is turning away from its relative isolation and facing towards the rest of Europe , a move symbolized by its accession to the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986 ( and in quite another sense by its debates concerning its membership of the NATO alliance ) . |
| 9 | She bit her lip painfully , turning away from his searching eyes . |
| 10 | The company , which is in the process of a major expansion drive aimed at moving away from its traditional freezer centre image , made pre-tax profits of £30.1m in the six months to July 3 from £24.22m previously . |
| 11 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 12 | By moving away from his first mate , the male prevents the female from assessing his true status until it is too late for her to do anything about it . |
| 13 | Breaking away from his fellow navvies he elbowed through the crowd to shake Seb vigorously by the hand . |
| 14 | I walked up from his left and I could see where the canvas of his left trainer was coming away from its rubber base . |
| 15 | Their baby son , Liam , was born four months after the love-struck pair shocked friends and family by running away from their close-knit parish . |
| 16 | as if running away from his own mind the tragic Haffey emigrated to Australia where Scottish exiles still see him as a figure of unrivalled fun . |
| 17 | And you you people are destroying that situation by taking away from us true family values . |
| 18 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 19 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 20 | When she came out , Iris was on the balcony doing her morning routine of breathing exercises , straight-backed , the sleeves of her cotton robe falling away from her thin arms as they rose and fell in time with the rhythmic and somewhat noisy intake and expulsion of air . |
| 21 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |