Example sentences of "[adv] from [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their women , far from being grateful , turned on them , snarling , in late night conversations telling them to shut up ; far from setting them free to work for the Revolution , their women demanded that they take emotional responsibility and also clean the loos . |
| 2 | Far from rendering them subject to ridicule , such a stress is one of the best ways to hold an audience and gain sympathy . |
| 3 | You do n't think about anything else apart from getting it right in front of the cameras . ’ |
| 4 | We in the north , and in the E E C in particular , have a policy of encouraging , or discouraging , Third World countries from from doing anything to the , the commodities at all , apart from exporting them raw as far as possible . |
| 5 | Apart from making it easier for customers to shop at their stores , retailers started their own store card or charge card schemes as a way of adding to their ancillary profits — and reducing outgoings by not having to pay the banks so much for their credit card schemes . |
| 6 | Incidentally , the idea of putting a compass in the seat recess with a seethrough window in the spraydeck is just plain daft ; apart from making you sick , looking down all the time would divert attention from where it matters , the sea . |