Example sentences of "away [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] and " in BNC.

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1 It stood well away from the other buildings and this morning the great doors were partly open and she looked inside carefully .
2 With a resolute nod at her reflection , she turned away from the bouncing curls and lightly freckled face and began to undress for bed .
3 Erm and that how that but through land reform it meant that how that you had erm credit difficulties and that how that landlords who prev previously provided the credit were no longer there and so that meant that how that erm that exasperated problems of increasing productivity and also there was a severe shortage of farm implements and animals cos they were n't redistributed , there was only the surplus that was taken away from the rich peasants and landlords , it meant that how that the , the rich peasants erm you know , got back er they sort of were a self-perpetuating elite in that how the poor peasants just did n't have the means to improving their production .
4 Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor , far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area .
5 The book aims to chart the direction in which communication in the Philippines can ‘ break away from the lingering structures and controls of the past regime towards the democratic , just and humane future Filipinos yearn for . ’
6 Edward turned away from the assembled prelates and nobles of his council and addressed Philip V as follows :
7 it means that they 're there and that if you take something away from the wealthy peasants and equalize
8 She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea .
9 With the Tories also there , attention could eventually be shifted away from the old disputes and onto the business of who governs the state and in whose interest .
10 He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple .
11 At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley .
12 These sites , in their simplest form , betray little or no development away from the main frontages and there appears to have been no obvious urban focus within the plan .
13 Many are taking their trade away from the main thoroughfares and into the back streets where they take people to market and bring children back from school .
14 The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient .
15 Far away across the varied greens and browns the wood-jagged horizon gave way to the faint blue hump of the Malvern Hills .
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