Example sentences of "[adv] from [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The count found Držić a witty and entertaining companion , and Držić , a poor cleric , benefited greatly from sharing in the cosmopolitan life of his master . |
| 2 | The student can , however , learn much from listening to the exchange of views , and can contribute by reporting her own observation of the patient . |
| 3 | I think about the year that 's gone past , perhaps , people who 've passed out of my life , and think of it as a new beginning , and I wish as Scots that we would hold on to it and perpetuate that tradition and get away from gathering around the T V in Hogmanay . |
| 4 | The veteran bomber 's just 4 flights away from passing into the history books ; a sad prospect for the pilots who 've flown them . |
| 5 | A week away from leaving for the European leg of the current Michael Jackson tour , she was enjoying a two day break in what sounded like a hectic rehearsal schedule . |
| 6 | Stress directs resources away from dealing with the job to dealing with the emotional discomfort and personal threat . |
| 7 | Current educational philosophy has moved away from focusing on the physical or sensory basis of disability and so it may initially appear that an understanding of the cause of a child 's disability is primarily a medical matter and not one of concern to the educator . |
| 8 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |
| 9 | Well if I keep you away from going into the shower , it 'd be like extended foreplay wo n't it ? |
| 10 | With all the previous intermediaries we looked at , we warned that we can not judge the volume of buying and selling of assets which an intermediary carries out just from looking at the inflow of new funds . |
| 11 | The two plots were also very predictable , because we all knew that Carrie would not be accepted back into society just from going to the ball . |
| 12 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 13 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 14 | I cycled over from Creeting at the usual time and when I started it were all right . |
| 15 | Harry Pascoe returned from these sporting festivities scratched all over from fighting among the gorse bushes on Pencarrow Head , and found his new wife in her new kitchen . |
| 16 | If Damiani could go to Jaffa , most of his fellow exiles are prevented forever from walking in the streets outside their old houses — or knocking on those front doors . |
| 17 | But I remember having a day off from teaching at the time , probably because of the various strikes , and watching the lunchtime television . |
| 18 | Many practitioners know this , and may be put off from benefiting from the undoubted if limited strengths of functional assessment . |
| 19 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 20 | Each of these companies was invited to accept a field officer , a college lecturer with a half-day per week freed up from teaching for the purpose . |
| 21 | Getting up from rummaging in the wastepaper basket , she bumped her head , very lightly , on the sink . |
| 22 | The notion that the surface thrusts might flatten at depth was voiced long ago ( Hayes 1891 ) , and received support from Rich ( 1934 ) , Rodgers ( 1949 ) who introduced the term ‘ thin-skinned ’ — and others , and also as time went on from drilling in the Valley and Ridge province , where roughly 1000 mostly shallow wells have been drilled . |
| 23 | Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman recorded for Shrapnel Records from 1981 to 1989 and has recently taken time out from working with the band to record a new solo album , ‘ Scenes ’ , for Shrapnel/Roadrunner Records . |
| 24 | Erm who was able to hold er the Russians back from intervening on the grounds that it would be er seen as intervention in a er in in in a revolt . |
| 25 | A couple of years ago , back from adventuring through the Caribbean and Central America , she decided not to become a campaigner . |
| 26 | It turned to booing and some chanted expletives by the eighth , when Leonard , clearly mastering the fight , won points with some superb counter-shots but then pulled back from driving in the wedge . |
| 27 | The Laming/Foster circular of last year held back from legislating on the purchaser/provider split , leaving it up to authorities to restructure services as they considered feasible . |
| 28 | Napoleon , far from manoeuvring about the Duke 's right flank , had rammed his troops into the seam between the allied armies . |
| 29 | The very existence of a national-territorial framework in the USSR , indeed , far from providing for the peaceful solution of the nationalities question that was originally envisaged , appeared to have led to precisely the opposite result by establishing a form of representation in which sectional interests , denied any other means of expression , could in practice take only the form of ‘ nationalism ’ . |
| 30 | The work of Peter Townsend and others showed that , far from presiding over the elimination of poverty , the Wilson Government actually failed to prevent some of its features from worsening ( Townsend and Bosanquet , 1972 ) . |