Example sentences of "[verb] away from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let your tack dry away from a direct source of heat ; do n't put it in front of a radiator or fire , or the leather will become brittle . |
| 2 | Across ashen , unredeemable scenes , Shakespeare 's words resound with redoubled force and humanity ; they sound almost ironic , in their fruitless reaching towards the images and emotions which have drained away from a soulless , monochrome universe . |
| 3 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 4 | A BEWILDERED 10-year-old boy was left to wander the streets for hours after being turned away from a police-run sports centre . |
| 5 | It should be noted that owing to the increase in size and complexity of modern business , the development of computer systems and the requirement that an auditor should review transactions over a period to report on the profit and loss account , the modern practice of auditing has moved away from a detailed checking of a mass of individual items towards a review of the systems in operation . |
| 6 | Christina wanted to remind him that he had only helped with the backing and that the real work had been done by Stephen and her , but she kept quiet and instead watched Jean Reece-Carlton as she turned away from a gloating Robert in disgust , muttering something under her breath . |
| 7 | Once you 've done them , people expect them to happen again and that takes away from a stable environment . |
| 8 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 9 | not unhappy at staying away from a western business man , even though he might be a temporary guest of the State ; after all , they were permanent guests and who knew but … . |
| 10 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
| 11 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 12 | One could move away from a straightforward ‘ bipolar ’ system , in which each side has only one of two options . |
| 13 | My personal hope is that we shall move away from a formalised dichotonomy of university and non-university institutions , and that there will be a less obvious division : two groups of educational organisations with parity of esteem in the public mind . |
| 14 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 15 | The Suffolk traffic cops were well-known to be a lot keener than their Essex brethren and a van like this one coming away from a military establishment was a natural target at that time in the morning . |
| 16 | We have decided to keep away from a theoretical treatment in this chapter and simply to give you well-tried practical techniques that have been found to work . |
| 17 | Michael broke away from a four-man leading group after three miles to win by 70 metres , while Christine , who also runs for Newton Aycliffe AC , had a full six minutes in hand on second-placed Darlington veteran Annette Smith . |
| 18 | There was a man , totally unconnected with the event I think , running away from a flaming van in Horseguards Parade erm and it was a wonderful picture opportunity for the world 's press to carry , but I do think that memories are short from this . |
| 19 | As two likeable gangsters running away from a vicious killer and the crack-selling Triads , Coltrane and Idle hide in a convent , where , inevitably , they find themselves in 101 dodgy situations . |
| 20 | Running away from a national crisis , at all events , was conduct that Waugh and Orwell saw as one . |
| 21 | She crouched and picked up part of the brickwork that had crumbled away from a supporting pillar . |
| 22 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 23 | Yet on Saturday night he may have run away from a million dollar showdown with Iran Barkley , a man Nigel Benn once conquered , now the IBF champion at 12 stone . |
| 24 | Obviously there are other aspects of intelligent behaviour , some of which Bali may discourage ; perhaps a time will come when he tells himself ‘ I 've run away from a big world to a little one , I was wrong ’ . |
| 25 | Like slipping away from a sleeping embrace , silently shutting the door behind one , tiptoeing off in the grey light of dawn — a stranger again . |
| 26 | At a level slightly higher than their heads , and several yards within the cordon , this raw soil fell away from a dark hole like the mouth of a deep , narrow cave , large enough , perhaps , to admit a small child . |
| 27 | He was surprised to find , for example , that men who make their living out of reporting news and gossip should go away from a private lunch with him and the Princess and talk about it . |
| 28 | Researchers are often reluctant to provide this weight of sample , especially when it has to be cut away from a valuable fragment of , say , bone or wood . |
| 29 | Having recommended acceptance and implementation at their annual meeting in Wellington , New Zealand , the IRB — as a result of reaction from within the game — will , however , shy away from a proposed four-year moratorium on change . |
| 30 | It was necessary to get away from a beer-hall style of singing these works . |