Example sentences of "take [pron] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only fault which I can find in his character though it bears little importance as it takes nothing away from the readers ' love of him and may even increase it due to his helplessness . |
| 2 | I find it very depressing because it takes me away from the constructive side of the business and into being a sort of financial PR and being defensive . |
| 3 | This , of course , takes us away from the ‘ here and now ’ . |
| 4 | It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory . |
| 5 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 6 | But let's take nothing away from the Portrush champions — they are a very talented outfit . |
| 7 | But let's take nothing away from the winners . |
| 8 | And we 've allowed for the fact that cooking for a family or organising a dinner party may take you away from the cooker when you want the food to go on cooking . |
| 9 | ‘ The cuts do n't take anything away from the film , ’ she said after seeing the tamer version acceptable to American cinemas . |
| 10 | This was my case , dusted down from Granny 's attic when they were taking me away from the farm . |
| 11 | It has been found that taking them away from the contamination and giving them a healthy diet for a month can boost their damaged immune systems for up to 18 months . |
| 12 | right cos then you 're taking them away from the fact that you want other quotes right , they 'll say to you oh we were n't thinking of doing it actually until the winter , right and then you can say to them well let me just say that by placing your order in now we can put your installation in hand , right , basically at today 's prices , right , on an extended delivery , right , and you can still qualify for a special offer , right |
| 13 | The car took them away from the town , out through the flat fields and the irrigation pipes that ran along beside the road . |
| 14 | ‘ How long were you driving for after they took you away from the family ? ’ |
| 15 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 16 | This prevented the girl 's parents taking her away from the home of her 18-year-old boyfriend . |
| 17 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 18 | Val 's journey took her away from the village , through arid plains and between inert and inanimate peaks . |
| 19 | But since we took her away from the convent she has worried us both to death . |
| 20 | A second group of miners loaded the loose coal onto a moving conveyor which took it away from the coal face . |
| 21 | An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) . |
| 22 | Our route soon took us away from the stream to open rolling countryside . |
| 23 | It seems to me that however attractive this addendum is , it 's taking us away from the real issue which is about the baptism one which the bishop er also kind of brought up er and which we 've been exercising ourselves over . |
| 24 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 25 | At that stage the divisional officer may have taken it away from the domestic scene , and er put it through to Glasgow if it was the , if the employer was a member of the employers ' association , he would then take it to local conference . |
| 26 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 27 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 28 | Foolish because if you do not tell me , I have the power to take you away from the river bank , away from the sun and light , and shut you in the caracol for ever . ’ |
| 29 | it means that they 're there and that if you take something away from the wealthy peasants and equalize |
| 30 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |