Example sentences of "[vb past] away from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if sensing their approach , the Whale turned and headed away from shore . |
| 2 | You see he moved away from communism as |
| 3 | I moved away from home to work in another town a year ago , and have met a man who , as far as I 'm concerned , is Mr Right . |
| 4 | His successor , Raymond Miquel , moved away from brewing and into fast food . |
| 5 | Colleagues said last night that the speech marked a change of gear — as Mr Kinnock moved away from party organisation and policy and accelerated into the election campaign . |
| 6 | In the case of dementia sufferers who wandered away from home if they were able to get out , such a ruling was sometimes difficult for a family to accept . |
| 7 | The Assembly hovered on the brink of the regime 's attack on traders , but shied away from discussion of other economic policies , relations with Egypt , or conscription . |
| 8 | But her mind shied away from politics , and she had no wish to cross Edouard on that front . |
| 9 | Reflecting how Laura herself invariably shied away from mention of her gifts , I was left with my thoughts . |
| 10 | You never quite got away from guilt ; the priests were right . |
| 11 | The girls were screaming back as the train pulled out and we got away from Khabarovsk without being arrested . |
| 12 | Once she got away from lingerie interest flagged and Rain found herself puzzling over something which had been said before the speeches began . |
| 13 | Her three children , Karen , 25 , Nicki , 23 , and Mark , 21 , all lived away from home . |
| 14 | Erm now you said you went away , you lived away from home for a bit , when you when you were eight |
| 15 | Did you say you lived away from home for a bit ? |
| 16 | She checked out of the Palings and drove away from Longrock with the windows open and the early morning sun strong on her face . |
| 17 | David smiled , and they drove away from Chestnut House . |
| 18 | The dinner was a gloomy affair — ‘ … my guests ' dejection was so great that they turned away from food and drink ’ — but then came the telegram from the King . |
| 19 | But one important reason why he turned away from belief in God was that he was forced to adopt an unhealthy attitude towards his own questions and serious doubts . |
| 20 | Throughout this year they have faced strong competition from National Savings and , throughout the summer months , new savings flowed away from building society accounts , although accrued interest of £8bn helped offset the immediate impact of this outflow . |
| 21 | She sprang away from Finn and it was no longer a pretence — she stumbled over the knotted fringe of the rug . |
| 22 | At one level , June Braithwaite attacked Robert about the time he spent away from home and what he did and did not do for the children . |
| 23 | Her catwalk looks and figure were swathed in motorcycle overalls as she whizzed away from speculation about her relationship with Princess Diana 's friend James Gilbey . |
| 24 | I pulled away from Dad and started to run , wheeling my bike beside me . |
| 25 | Milla also said she steered away from romance with actors and models ‘ because they try to be prettier than me ’ . |
| 26 | We steered away from neutrality and headed for the magnificence of the Alps in the moonlight ; I always wondered if the Stirling would clear the Matterhorn and it always did with plenty to spare . |
| 27 | She looked away from Dane 's eyes now , suddenly gripped by an almost overwhelming need to ask him to stay . |
| 28 | The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank , as though entirely concerned with the work . |
| 29 | Damian said impatiently as he strode away from Passport Control . |
| 30 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |