Example sentences of "[verb] away from a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also charged with driving away from a filling station without paying for petrol . |
| 2 | This is the story of a young man who falls in love with a girl as he is driving away from a car park . |
| 3 | He 'd spotted two men driving away from a securicor van parked outside Bookers cash and carry centre in cheltenham . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's something he 's had for some time , but I was always going to play him despite the trouble and the fact he 's one booking away from a ban . ’ |
| 5 | As in France under the Fifth Republic , West Germany moved away from a system of political parties based on class , religious and constitutional differences . |
| 6 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 7 | TORY back-benchers last night shied away from a rebellion over the Budget imposition of value-added tax on domestic fuel . |
| 8 | Harris accuses Cole of ‘ stepping away from a system that must face up to the hypocrisy behind pretending to give a helping hand ’ and ignoring the way this system ‘ ( ab ) uses the South … and , in the words of Eduardo Galeano , ‘ spreads the haemorrage to cure the anaemia' ’ . |
| 9 | FITNESS enthusiast Angelina Arnott was turned away from a women 's health club because she used to be a man . |
| 10 | This is scandalous because no child should ever be turned away from a church . |
| 11 | New Age travellers who attacked police after being turned away from a festival have been moved on . |
| 12 | Green himself had been turned away from a polling station in the capital , Georgetown , for lack of identity papers ; this prompted his supporters , drawn from slum districts , to go on the rampage , attacking the Commission 's headquarters and that of the PPP and looting and vandalising scores of Indian shops . |
| 13 | West Country Living : Houses with a clubhouse attached Roy White finds plenty in the area to attract the golfer , including homes a chip shot away from a course . |
| 14 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 15 | Copa Bitoo had moved away from a subsistence economy , but was producing fruit and nuts for the local market , not for export . |
| 16 | Section 32 regulates searches where an arrest is made away from a police station . |
| 17 | Stopping would 've been like looking away from a hypnotist 's swinging silver watch . |
| 18 | An animal capable of symbolization can carry away from a situation an inner trace that stands in for the response it may make when it next encounters the situation . |
| 19 | They hauled up their Norwegian colours , forbidden by the Germans whose only presence was an armed trawler , pulling away from a jetty and prepared to fight . |
| 20 | And nor , she might have added , did she run away from a fight . |
| 21 | When it roars away from a traffic light , its burning tyres leave a patch of smoking rubber on the road behind . |
| 22 | The visitor to the Museo Guarnacci of Volterra is not likely to forget the series of urns with strange scenes of marauding Celts who run away from a Fury . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , there is ; it 's easier to walk away from a girlfriend when the time comes . ’ |
| 24 | ( 3 ) Stephen Small raced away from a defender and was brought down from behind inside the area — an indirect free kick for obstruction instead of a penalty . |
| 25 | Gomarsall raced away from a maul to score an excellent solo try in 22 minutes and some fine handling produced a touchdown for left-wing Tim Stimpson three minutes later . |
| 26 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 27 | Turning away from a regard that seemed faintly menacing , she tried to look as though she knew what she was doing as she rearranged some sweaters . |
| 28 | Also , if we turn away uncritically from a voice-we hate or fear , then we are turning away from a source of conflict — and conflict is one of the writer 's richest foods . |
| 29 | Some people ca n't keep away from a deathbed . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’ |