Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [adv] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her three children , Karen , 25 , Nicki , 23 , and Mark , 21 , all lived away from home . |
| 2 | I had an argument with my mother and I just ran away from home and came here without telling her . |
| 3 | Leith asked quickly , imagining Rosemary to be across the corridor and incapacitated in some way since Rosemary , who always arrived home from work first , invariably popped over if she wanted a chat . |
| 4 | I also lived there from time to time many years ago . |
| 5 | who refused to wear the stuffy school uniform but came to classes in a grubby khaki shirt and shorts , would not sit properly on his chair but cross-legged on it , yawned during lessons and often stayed away from school altogether . |
| 6 | Reflecting how Laura herself invariably shied away from mention of her gifts , I was left with my thoughts . |
| 7 | We even came home from school together … both with dirty pants . |
| 8 | Cash 's workers did not have to go out to the sound of the factory bell or whistle , but simply went upstairs from home to workshop , and thus kept a little of the independence they prized . |
| 9 | While the exact size of this latter group is unclear , Peter Clark has estimated that as many as one fifth of the population of Kent regularly stayed away from church in the later sixteenth century , and the situation may well have been worse in the peripheral ‘ dark corners of the land ’ to the north and west . |
| 10 | You never quite got away from guilt ; the priests were right . |
| 11 | The relief available then increased progressively from age 60 , reaching the maximum of £100,000 at age 65 . |
| 12 | Although energetic and successful in all school activities , Ernest twice ran away from home before joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 13 | The very next sentence : ‘ Although energetic and successful in all school activities , Ernest twice ran away from home before joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917 ’ departs from this pattern . |
| 14 | The young Ernest , who grew older as the years passed by , attended a local school , and although energetic and successful in all school activities , he twice ran away from home , though he returned on both occasions . |
| 15 | They either died there from hunger or exposure , or were taken back into their community when they had recovered sufficiently to present no menace . |
| 16 | Yes , their fortune almost certainly came mainly from construction in the oil-rich sheikdoms of the Gulf . |
| 17 | Childhood in the wings of her mother and father 's raging had taught her a degree of courage ; she never ran away from anger . |
| 18 | In contrast , Jesus never ran away from trouble , nor left people in their sickness or sorrow . |
| 19 | ‘ He knew Jeremy seldom roamed far from home unless it was on important business . |