Example sentences of "[vb infin] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |
| 2 | Drains should ideally be laid in straight lines between inspection chambers and should always fall away from the house with the correct gradient to ensure that the flow through the pipe is fast enough to ensure solid matter is carried along . |
| 3 | Prince Richard 's Private Secretary , Clive Fairbrother , watched his master sprint away from the aircraft towards him , resenting the way his glossy brown hair fell back smoothly after the wind ruffled it . |
| 4 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 5 | Often they would quarrel and he would stay away from the house for a while ; but he was never able to stay away for long . |
| 6 | He 'd play a couple of quiet rounds and then when it got hectic and everyone else wanted to be playing , he 'd stay away from the course and just hit a few balls in practice . |
| 7 | So if you are a die-hard player who ca n't stay away from the golf course during the winter months , why not try a golfing holiday on the Continent ? |
| 8 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 9 | ‘ By the way , could you stay away from the marsh at the top of the ten-acre field . ’ |
| 10 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't stay away from the wedding ! |
| 12 | ESC founders Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington director and star of the Shakespeare tragedy say they would rather stay away from the Civic , one of the strongest dates on their world tours , than face the same problem again . |
| 13 | Had to stay , stay away from the windows . |
| 14 | Communications did not improve away from the grass roots . |
| 15 | These too need to be distributed , for it is better that the next generation should grow away from the parent plant , where they will not suffer from its shade or be deprived of sustenance by its roots . |
| 16 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 17 | Not much , says Mr Day , and he predicts that smaller firms that do n't want to work in regulated areas will break away from the Institute and set up in practice as plain accountants . |
| 18 | When he does break away from the norm , and that 's not too often , there are some interesting results . |
| 19 | Every child must break away from the parental fold , and establish his own personal identity . |
| 20 | Jan Hurak , from Poland , who was third last year , does not believe that anyone will run away from the field , as the Russians did last year . |
| 21 | This is what I mean by protection — we did not run away from the terrible topic : the use of projection allowed us to face cancer . |
| 22 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 23 | ‘ People are fed up hearing about our injuries , but you ca n't run away from the fact that we have 28 professionals , and half of those ca n't be considered . |
| 24 | " But why did you run away from the hunting camp in the first place ? " |
| 25 | On scenting an alarm pheromone , an ant may do any of a variety of things : it may run away from the source of the scent ; it may freeze and ‘ play dead ’ , or it may run towards the source of the scent and attack any nearby enemies . |
| 26 | Was it true ? she demanded of the silly girl : that she 'd run away from the boys when they were only trying to be friendly ? |
| 27 | The system is using it for itself , but you can not run away from the fact that it has helped a lot of women to pursue careers rather than to sit down and nurse babies . |
| 28 | Despite his best efforts to concentrate power effectively within his own hands , the emphasis on local authority implicit in a system purporting to operate through the traditional rulers of a primitive country , which possessed nothing approaching a unitary state co-extensive with its official boundaries , inevitably meant that power would drain away from the centre towards the local administrator , who alone could claim the special knowledge of local conditions , and opportunity for intimate supervision , on which Indirect Rule implicitly depended . |
| 29 | He looked down at her and she could n't look away from the dark , burning eyes . |
| 30 | It will do you no good to try and keep away from the hub of activity and hope that by making no impression you will not make a bad impression . |