Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suffer badly from the leaf menace . |
| 2 | With mixed feelings ( on my part , anyway ) , we watched the lights of Stornoway recede astern from the deck of the old MacBrayne 's ferry Lock Seaforth . |
| 3 | The leaf-stalks grow opposite from the stem . |
| 4 | If you want away from the crowd try the upstairs restaurant . |
| 5 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |
| 6 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 7 | As you catch a wave and accelerate down its face you vigorously steer away from the wind . |
| 8 | All those who drink exotic tea and smell differently from the rest of us are probably in collusion . |
| 9 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 10 | Carve both from the top in a boat shape , and from the side to give the round hull . |
| 11 | Would you renounce your love , slip gracefully from the scene , become a goatherd and play mournfully consoling music on your Panpipes all day while your heedless flock chomp the succulent tufts ? |
| 12 | They tend away from the school mentality . |
| 13 | One is to present the goodwill debit in the p&l account separately from the profit or loss on disposal . |
| 14 | Let us tuck ourselves up in the light and warmth , and hide away from the night . " |
| 15 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 16 | As time went by and my experience sharpened , I back away from the window , taking in more and more of the store fronts , their signs , and external lights . |
| 17 | Never leave objects on the floor of the kitchen , such as shoes or dustpans , that may trip you up as you back away from the sink or cooker . |
| 18 | Push away from the wall as you jump |
| 19 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |
| 20 | I ease away from the crowd along the railing , wondering where she will be . |
| 21 | The further you climb away from the town centre , the more alive the custom is . |
| 22 | As we walk away from the Broadway the pavements become empty . |
| 23 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 24 | As I walk away from the house I meet Brian Wilson driving in . |
| 25 | Rather the contrary : in Britain a wastesite operator who finds it too expensive to meet the rules can simply hand in his licence and walk away from the site . |
| 26 | As we walk away from the pond , the cicadas slowly begin to pick up their instruments and rehearse in fragmented chords . |
| 27 | Each ‘ generation ’ in the cycle starts when seed crystals break away from the parent stream in the form of dust . |
| 28 | ‘ Our mission at Dillons is to widen the market for books and break away from the elitism that has dominated the book trade and held back sales . ’ |
| 29 | Move it further towards you so that the threads stick to the wire and break away from the support . |
| 30 | We break away from the house for the wilderness , darting across gravel quickly . |