Example sentences of "from [adv] far away " in BNC.
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| 1 | From somewhere far away comes the drone of a mower , and the smell of the cut grass . |
| 2 | From somewhere far away , she could make out the screaming whine of an emergency vehicle in a hurry . |
| 3 | It was a marvellous site and , seen from so far away , the house did n't look a ruin . |
| 4 | And why are you calling from so far away ? |
| 5 | Her mother 's face came swimming into her mind , blotting out the sight of the message from so far away . |
| 6 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 7 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 8 | Sometimes messages come from as far away as Senegal and Pakistan . |
| 9 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 10 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 11 | Carried by strong winds the rain is capable of travelling hundreds , even thousands of miles , from as far away as the USA to Britain . |
| 12 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 13 | Two days of celebrations were planned for the visitors — some from as far away as Canada and Australia — including a funfair , helicopter rides , fireworks and dancing and numerous side stalls . |
| 14 | Its students , from as far away as Java , Sumatra , Korea , China and Japan included Hsuang Tsang , the Chinese traveller who studied there in the seventh century . |
| 15 | Thousands of tourists from as far away as Essex have flooded to the area to strip the wreck of the 10,000-ton ship Demetrius . |
| 16 | ‘ We have had patients from as far away as Wales because we specialise in cardiac rhythm problems . |
| 17 | Exhibitors are drawn from many parts of the North of England , some from as far away as Macclesfield , as well as the more local places such as Blackpool , Thornton , Blackburn , Bolton and Liverpool . |
| 18 | Madras , for example , imported them from as far away as Ceylon and Malaya . |
| 19 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 20 | The two-banded plover is a resident species , but the white-rumped sandpiper is a non-breeding visitor from as far away as Arctic Canada . |
| 21 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 22 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 23 | Mystery schools descended from ancient Egypt cohabited amicably with Greek mystery schools , with Hellenistic philosophy , with religious teachings from Palestine and Syria , with skeins of Zoroastrian and Mithraic tradition , with sects and cults from every quarter of the Mediterranean , even with offshoots of Hinduism and Buddhism imported from as far away as India . |
| 24 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 25 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 26 | And they came either from other parts of the city , or even from as far away as Birmingham . |
| 27 | As they ate , the students sat cross-legged on carpets brought from as far away as Shiraz , Damascus and the Yemen . |
| 28 | Canon Reggie Twaddell of St Mark 's Parish Church said he had received letters of condemnation from as far away as Crete , Cork and Kilkenny after damage to the stained glass windows . |
| 29 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 30 | There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest . |