Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 2 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 3 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 5 | They 're not very flattering they did n't er , you were n't rated very highly I 'm afraid I think er you tried to get away from the traditional type of |
| 6 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 7 | Desire was a leaping sheet of flame now , consuming Maria , the erotic furnace their mouths had become only an imitation of an inward eruption of molten passion that seemed to flow outward from the secret heart of her need , enveloping her utterly . |
| 8 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 9 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 10 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 11 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 12 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 13 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 14 | Another volley of bullets came flying across from the German lines . |
| 15 | According to our panel all three parties , including Labour , seemed to drift away from the issue as the campaign progressed . |
| 16 | What she 'd known instinctively from the start was absolutely right . |
| 17 | They were just starting on it when two larger rabbits came running across from the other side of the near-by cattle-wade . |
| 18 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 19 | Rebel was racing after another lamb he 'd steered away from the main flock . |
| 20 | His moustache seemed to droop further from the lack of good results . |
| 21 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 22 | But some few weeks later she happened to bring home from the library a volume of Marx 's early writings . |
| 23 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 24 | He began to walk away from the burial ground , his heart surging with excitement . |
| 25 | The ship had slowed its speed as passengers gradually began to drift away from the reception to enjoy their evening meal in one of the several top class restaurants . |
| 26 | Materials and food prices began to drift downwards from the summer of 1973 . |
| 27 | He began moving away from the ball when he began hitting those dreaded laterals with short irons . |
| 28 | Fenner Brockway 's conception of the " Workers Front " , limited to " working class parties " , was adopted at the ILP Conference at Easter 1937 , and the ILP began to draw away from the other participants in the Unity Campaign . |
| 29 | Imperceptibly at first , the floor of the cabin began to tilt away from the horizontal . |
| 30 | She began to run away from the van , round the side of the building in the direction of Charley 's place . |