Example sentences of "away from her [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was Liz looking forward to her new life in the United States , but also to living well away from her future mother-in-law . |
| 2 | Without moving his eyes away from her dark head he oscillated between the image of the pure lady accepting the spoon , or at least the rose , and the idea of her calling out in a thrashing orgasm of female pleasure as he spurted and spurted in ecstatic triumph on top of her . |
| 3 | The peace and serenity of the green countryside and sandy dunes seemed almost a lifetime away from her present existence — as did the night she had spent in Ross 's arms . |
| 4 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 5 | Brushing her wispy fringe away from her hot forehead , she settled the strap of her bag over her shoulder and , taking her case in one hand and her grip in the other , struggled off the bus . |
| 6 | They took her last baby away from her twelve years ago . |
| 7 | Whiplash 's head rolled away from her lifeless body , mouth contorted in a hideous grin . |
| 8 | Daryl , 32 , could n't tear herself away from her new boyfriend after they had lunch at a Manhattan diner . |
| 9 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 10 | I told her I thought The Times would probably have a man on the spot and it was late , and I prised my Toshiba away from her grasping hands . |
| 11 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 12 | They should have known all along that she was lying but everyone was in a hurry to get away from her embarrassing tears and her insistence on their testifying to this and that . |
| 13 | She was so happy with them , she called them Dad and Mum and living only a few streets away from her real mother , would visit her daily , calling her ‘ My mother 's sister ’ . |
| 14 | Easing the damp khaki cotton of her culotte suit away from her perspiring skin , she drained the glass of juice and dragged herself away from the mesmerising sight of the turquoise water and army of waving coconut palms . |
| 15 | With views across the valley from her studio window , Mary mixes the tranquil scene with rock music blasting away from her portable stereo to produce the best atmosphere in which to undertake her exact art . |
| 16 | Do you live in hope that your fortune might tempt her away from her rightful husband ? ’ |
| 17 | It was a long time before she drew away , knuckling the tears away from her reddened eyes . |
| 18 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 19 | And , just as the fine-needle spray of water flowed down over her shaking figure , so all sense and caution drained away from her dazed mind . |
| 20 | When she came out , Iris was on the balcony doing her morning routine of breathing exercises , straight-backed , the sleeves of her cotton robe falling away from her thin arms as they rose and fell in time with the rhythmic and somewhat noisy intake and expulsion of air . |
| 21 | By this time she had been away from her native Russia scarcely a dozen years . |
| 22 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 23 | She had to run away from her last husband . |
| 24 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 25 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 26 | With gentle fingers he smoothed her damp hair away from her clear forehead . |
| 27 | Breeze , wedged in a corner of the crowded third-class compartment , cautiously massaged her left arm , which was cramped , and tried to wriggle away from her portly neighbour , whose big fur collar had been tickling her neck for the last half-hour . |
| 28 | But she had turned away from her high window and demanded he scale the ivory walls without her help . |
| 29 | She was highly strung and beautiful and had never been away from her large family or Plean — the mining village where she was born . |
| 30 | He would not , could not , he bunched his fists and looked away from her fierce brow and curving lips and asked her brusquely what she wanted . |