Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthony 's regular enquiries of his colleagues around Italy had at last borne fruit and Annunziata 's son had been discovered in a Roman hospital recovering slowly from serious wounds to his head and spine . |
| 2 | This fits in with the general tendency among much of the elite population in Shetland ( and Dunrossness ) to avoid raising ‘ issues ’ ( this has obviously happy consequences for those who are benefitting most from oil-related developments ) . |
| 3 | You still runnin' away from that there South Atlantic battle ? ’ |
| 4 | Hew Leyshon , convertibles specialist at James Capel , believes a portfolio yielding a good 30 p.c. more than the market average can easily be constructed , keeping away from most speculative issues and sticking to stocks where the underlying business is undoubtedly strong . |
| 5 | Eating disorder symptoms can produce positive feedback in psychological and family systems or they can preserve equilibrium in either of these systems by deflecting away from other difficult areas . |
| 6 | That is certainly the case , but the Government are walking away from that fact by encouraging imports of coal to destroy the fabric of our communities . |
| 7 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 8 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 9 | ‘ You can help me by stepping away from that door ! ’ |
| 10 | But yes , yes … now the Warlords were angling away from one another as they tramped thunderously towards the Marines — who could certainly see them now through veils of smoke in the darkness riven by the lightning of explosions . |
| 11 | Most of them had become marraines to one or more soldiers , according them benefits ranging merely from encouraging letters to parcels of food and woollies to the highest a woman can offer a man . |
| 12 | people communicating together from all levels |
| 13 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 14 | Paris was the world 's cultural capital in their eyes , but Russia suffered alternately from a deep-rooted inferiority complex , saddled with two cultural capitals looking away from each other towards Asia and Europe ; or from an unstable Messianic superiority complex , derived from Byzantium via Dostoevsky and now resurrected phoenix-like by the Bolsheviks under a new guise . |
| 15 | ‘ Clearly they hate each other 's company and they deal with it by looking away from each other . |
| 16 | They suggested the reasons were trying to find out who was speaking and looking quickly from one person to another with rising anxiety . |
| 17 | Like many other colonials , the often devastating effects of the climate on local agriculture , and the inordinate expenses of living far from commercial centres had reduced him to impoverishment , but he was also finding little recompense from the government . |
| 18 | Principals of firms operating mainly from overseas offices are not taken into account for the purposes of calculating the premium payable by an MNP for indemnity insurance and the fee income from all overseas practice is excluded from the computations . |
| 19 | There were tears in her eyes and she was looking far from pleased . |
| 20 | Another figure stood , looking far from friendly . |
| 21 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 22 | They are the tombs of provincial governors , dating roughly from 2000 to 1800 BC , a relatively quiet and prosperous period during the Middle Kingdom . |
| 23 | The interior surfaces are painted with work dating mainly from 1815 . |
| 24 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |
| 25 | Since 1987 , people declaring on their visa applications that they were HIV-positive could be debarred entry to the USA ( under legislation to control serious and infectious diseases , dating originally from 1951 ) . |
| 26 | Cleveleys has always been an important destination on the Blackpool and Fleetwood line , with an intermediate service operating there from earliest Company days . |
| 27 | Yuppies wo n't like living across from all that noise . |
| 28 | Bitterly cold , shivering violently from several causes , but out . |
| 29 | And within 60 seconds , Marco Gabbiadini made it three to the Rams , racing clear and firing home from 12 yards . |
| 30 | But although Ajdabiya and Kufra were theoretically sovereign , it would be a mistake to think of their independence as deriving directly from central policy . |