Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [adv] from the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They fall into two categories : people who own their own houses , the vast majority of whom have purchased their homes recently from the Housing Executive , and people who are Housing Executive tenants and require special adaptations .
2 When the execution was carried out in the Fort of Penha de França , the people of Madeira showed their disgust by turning their heads away from the fort whenever they passed it .
3 The two dealers escaped through a back window , after dropping their belongings down from the fire-escape .
4 If people trained their dogs properly from the start we would not have these problems .
5 They received their powers not from the king-duke but from the seneschal of Aquitaine , as did the king-duke 's proctors in the Paris Parlement .
6 It is a system which deals with children and their families away from the formality of the courts .
7 The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office .
8 Men were herding mares and their foals away from the water , and a few women were washing clothes beside the shore .
9 They seem to have curled their arms up from the mouth as five ribs and then connected them by more plates to form a sphere .
10 In many parts of the country , villages are dormitory and retirement centres ; the farms that now work the land are for the most part out in their fields away from the villages .
11 During the millennia of genetic divergence , while warp storms cut their worlds off from the rest of the galaxy , they were forced to manufacture their own food and air .
12 But if wives , as wives , are unable to generate a reasonable income for themselves and their children either from the state or from the labour market , then it has to be assumed that their husbands will ‘ keep ’ them .
13 Within weeks , some parents started taking their children away from the school .
14 Garda Jim Moore warned parents to keep their children away from the area — a popular meeting place for teenagers .
15 As they left the Springall mansion and waited in Cheapside for an ostler to bring their horses round from the stables , Athelstan sensed Cranston was furious with him but the coroner waited until they had mounted and moved away from the house before stopping and giving full vent to his fury .
16 But he also believes that the creation of fundholding GP practices , who opt to receive their budgets directly from the Government instead of their local health authority , could lead to the creation of a two-tier system .
17 Every now and again they checked its progress , tilting their faces back from the heat as they reached into the core of the fire .
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