Example sentences of "away from [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The test between compass orientation and true navigation is to move an animal experimentally away from its normal tracks . |
| 2 | ‘ Raindown ’ again impresses because of the newly-found POD focus , its guitars taking time to breathe and plan their next assault , while Craig 's voice breaks away from its usual comparisons and finds its own piece of sky to lark about in . |
| 3 | As Britain 's trading emphasis shifts steadily away from its old dominions and towards the continent of Europe , the Humber ports are booming while those on the Mersey stagnate . |
| 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 | They took her last baby away from her twelve years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a long time before she drew away , knuckling the tears away from her reddened eyes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | But it was only a steady run nearly five second slower than her personal best time and almost four seconds away from her English Schools clocking of 43.5 last year . |
| 12 | So she and I ran away from him several times . |
| 13 | For a period of six months in British Airways all personnel and training staff were taken away from their normal duties and assigned to the task of helping with the process of change . |
| 14 | Those capitalists , who were predominantly of Chinese and Indian extraction , gradually grew in size and economic importance , and in doing so moved increasingly away from their traditional roles in Western dominated export and import sectors , and towards manufacturing , banking and commercial expansion in their own right . |
| 15 | Down on the river front of Old Chiswick , the firm of Thornycroft 's continued to be busily occupied with their boat building , and one of their employees , Mr. R. T. Smith , made an approach to his engineer employer , John Donaldson , who was a good Scottish Presbyterian with strong Christian principles , for a loan of five pounds in order to enable him ( R. T. Smith ) to start a coffee stall in Church Street , in an endeavour to keep some of the other employees away from their regular visits to the Lamb Tap Inn . |
| 16 | Still doubtful , the embalmer beckoned his assistants away from their other tasks . |
| 17 | Ideal for students wishing to spend their time at a different location away from their fellow countrymen . |
| 18 | Angrily but resigned , I stamped away from their bland assurances . |
| 19 | Then in the nineteenth century some of the more adventurous men seized the new opportunities to make wealth in an urban environment or to tear themselves away from their ancestral roots to start life anew thousands of miles away . |
| 20 | Ten single decker buses currently in service in the county are just a few months away from their 20th birthdays and there are still three 1973-registered double deckers trundling around Durham . |
| 21 | In 1931 , Horton visited Denmark to look more closely at the Folk Schools and their relationships with the trade unions , farmers ' co-operatives , and other cultural and social movements , and though he was in part disappointed by the fact that the Folk Schools had moved away from their original aims and methods , he was able to speak to many people who were involved in this movement and added another dimension to the idea which was eventually to find its expression in Highlander . |
| 22 | Ex- Sounds writer Dave McCullouch : ‘ I think The Smiths have moved so far away from their original ideas . |
| 23 | Miller considered that ‘ local effects seem to move about one tenth of local voters away from their national preferences and towards ‘ less political ’ candidates … . |
| 24 | Some butterflies and moths have evolved false heads at the rear ends of their bodies , deflecting the attacks of birds away from their vital organs . |
| 25 | This meant that they had often moved to their present jobs away from their previous connections of kin and friends . |
| 26 | These days , most women have to work to make ends meet and that means time away from their much-loved children and men . |
| 27 | The girl cried out , shrinking away from their struggling figures . |
| 28 | Such new sources of political energy may well have made the Athenians look hungrily away from their old markets to Sicily and Egypt . |
| 29 | LAURA STONE , of the Liverpool Notre Dame Association , who sent us this report , commented : ‘ Let us remember all lay and religious people who are away from their own countries and families , working for those less fortunate than ourselves and bringing in the Good News from afar . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , these schemes play a small role and they are particularly useful for people who need a short break away from their own families and for carers in need of respite ; they can also help someone moving towards a more independent life from a closely sheltered environment . |