Example sentences of "[adv] from [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked thoughtfully from her to the dresser . |
| 2 | She lit another cigarette and pushed the remains of a croissant away from her across the table . |
| 3 | He snatched the shoe out of her hand and hurled it violently away from her into the Kingsland Road . |
| 4 | Aunt Emily looked away from her into the fire . |
| 5 | I 'm away from her at the moment ; perhaps you guessed . |
| 6 | Léonie edged away from her on the warm plastic seat . |
| 7 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 8 | He sat a foot away from her on the edge of the bed . |
| 9 | USER FRIENDLY came within an ace of a French fortune yesterday as the Arc was snatched away from her in the shadow of the winning post . |
| 10 | How did you manage to get away from her in the end and come and live in this funny little house ? ’ |
| 11 | From hour to hour one 's life slipped away from one into the haze , before one had really looked at any of it properly . |
| 12 | But notice that I 'm pouring slowly and gently away from me into the dish which I shall then put in here , and I 'm going to put the the plate , which I described to you before , which has been covered with what 's on the back ? |
| 13 | I had a brief view of flailing arms and flying pans followed by a prolonged metallic clatter , then the little man reappeared like a projectile , turned right and sped away from me up the street . |
| 14 | He is a yard away from me across the gate . |
| 15 | Admonished and instructed by turns , I occasionally had the tambourine snatched away from me by the Second Son , who would rap it sharply against the wheel . |
| 16 | Do you think you could keep away from me by the way ? |
| 17 | All thoughts of doubt and shadows fall away from me in the face of this perfection . |
| 18 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 19 | The blue train is pulling away from me in the drizzle , gathering speed , effortlessly accelerating along its elevated track . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |
| 21 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 22 | We 'll ride away from them at the walk . ’ |
| 23 | He jumped brilliantly and I decided to put the pressure on to get away from them at the top of the hill . |
| 24 | The hounds , however , having wriggled under and through the gate , were still running , streaming away from them across the next field as the fox headed for the nearby covert . |
| 25 | On the contrary : he 's here to get rid of them , to lose them , to drift away from them in the heat and safety of the crowd . |
| 26 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 27 | The summons of Winchelsey to Rome only served to redirect baronial irritation away from him to the pope . |
| 28 | He examined the long split-level room stretching away from him to the tall windows at the far end . |
| 29 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 30 | The same powers which took my friend 's video away from him at the airport and threatened his livelihood into the bargain , have routinely been used against our whole culture . |