Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Divisional Construction Manager , Jim Gillespie says : ‘ The contractors are not taking the estates away from the tenants , but working with them , to improve their environment . ’ |
| 2 | They are very tolerant about boys ' mess in the home and untidiness generally , and in a sense they lay the foundations right from the very beginning of boys growing up to think of women as kind of household servants — this attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor mum has to do all the washing . |
| 3 | The letter published in The Times today from the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster expresses the profound disquiet among many people who are concerned about genuine asylum seekers . |
| 4 | ‘ We arranged to spread the hours differently from the original agreement , working extra in the mornings and in the evenings … ’ |
| 5 | I also recall that some cricket grounds displayed notices curtly stressing : ‘ No Autographs ’ and over-zealous groundstaff and sometimes local police had a high old time trying to keep the hunters away from the hunted . |
| 6 | The breakage of the teeth has produced two distinct types of damage : the splitting described earlier has progressed to cut whole sections of the teeth away from the rest ( Fig. 1.5C , D ) , so that the crowns of the teeth are split longitudinally , and this produces split molars ( Fig. 1.5C ) as defined in Table 3.10 . |
| 7 | I was going to make the minutes up from the tape you see . |
| 8 | So you 're kicking against the pricks right from the start . |
| 9 | John will play his part shouting the lads on from the bench . |
| 10 | the kids spilt milk on this and I did n't realize and it all dried , stuck all the controls you know what Tony 's like , you know , ca n't you keep the kids away from the computer |
| 11 | To complete the back of the chair it only remains to insert the three vertical splats , once again marking the shoulders off from the upper and lower back rail . |
| 12 | The most notable thing about the Rough Wooing is not that in the end the savagery of the English attack drove the Scots away from the new idea of friendship with England and back into the arms of their natural and ancient allies , the French . |
| 13 | The experience of the early Christians depicted in Acts was without doubt an experience of release , as they came to abandon practices which they found restrictive , and which had been encapsulated in laws which served to keep the Jews apart from the rest of the nations . |
| 14 | A squadron of British Hussars were on duty in the rue de la Blanchisserie to keep the beggars away from the wealthy . |
| 15 | In this , one of the spaces would be chosen and rotated in order to clear the elements adequately from the offending object ( in Figure 7.43 the space containing links B and C has been rotated ) . |
| 16 | Picking the feet out from the same side can save valuable seconds . |
| 17 | Right from the kick-off Hove took the game to Haslemere and only excellent defence held the visitors back from the line . |
| 18 | He was expected to get the crosses in from the left and get back to cover the left of defence . |
| 19 | As a lifelong Communist , Clasper knew that it was absolutely essential to wrest control of the workers away from the plant management . |
| 20 | In 1922 the chief drainage engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture reflected thus upon the constructive uses to which he had put the heroes home from the trenches : |
| 21 | Fortunately the energy required to break the atoms away from the diamond is very large , and so this process occurs very slowly at room temperature . |
| 22 | Emily impatiently took the slippers away from the girl . |
| 23 | Like most Greek bronzes this was cast in several sections : skirt , upper torso , limbs ( one can see where the lost left arm was attached ) : and the side-curls separately from the separate head . |
| 24 | They had brought most of the pieces up from the harbour defences , not anticipating another seaborne assault meantime . |
| 25 | " I 've pulled the teams around from the yard plenty of times . |
| 26 | What are the things apart from the value of the item ones in erm you 're right Phil , by the way I 'm not saying you 're wrong . |
| 27 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 28 | Check your original question-framework and make sure that ( i ) it was a valid one , ( ii ) you can answer the questions satisfactorily from the text , ( iii ) no new questions have arisen from your reading which affect your approach to the material . |
| 29 | Beginners learn the kiai right from the outset of their training . |
| 30 | No-one can say for certain whether he was right ; what can be stated with certainty is that with Italy and Germany helping the Nationalists almost from the beginning , non-intervention threw the Spanish Republic into the embrace of the only great power willing to help her — the Soviet Union . |