Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Durie , the Tottenham striker , was withdrawn yesterday from the Scotland squad to face Malta on Wednesday at Ibrox after the player broke down in training . |
| 2 | Critical attention , in short , was diverted away from the economic , social , political or metaphysical shortcomings of the USSR . |
| 3 | Traffic on the A40 was diverted away from the area for some time . |
| 4 | Nothing was heard apart from the sound of lead boots walking up and down or the revving of a motorbike . |
| 5 | But a girl was treated differently from the start . |
| 6 | A young peasant boy had remounted his lathered horse and was galloping away from the priory . |
| 7 | No financial details were revealed on AT&T Co 's acquisition of Shaye Communications Ltd ( CI No 2,148 ) , and no indication of the company 's size was given apart from the fact that it employs 60 people , many of whom are involved in the design and engineering of the firm 's products . |
| 8 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |
| 9 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 10 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
| 11 | In Chapter 4 , we pointed out that the profile of the known sample group was skewed away from the ‘ typical ’ young unemployed heroin chaser identified by the prevalence study because of the very nature of being a ‘ known ’ user in treatment . |
| 12 | Victim Martin Baxendale , 19 , a sales manager , was walking away from the scene of the first explosion when the second device went off . |
| 13 | I was walking away from the post office when I heard someone running after me . |
| 14 | Ianthe spoke perfunctorily , for she was walking away from the library with John who had not left her as he usually did to go to his bus stop . |
| 15 | The odds and the prize money here were considerably higher than at Bampton and as Seb was walking away from the race officials with his winnings , a voice in his ear said , ‘ Put that money somewhere safe , Seb . |
| 16 | He was walking home from the pub through Swindon town centre when two police officers approached him . |
| 17 | With fine forceps , the entire AER was teased away from the left limb and discarded , causing no obvious damage to underlying mesenchyme . |
| 18 | The contribution was to come jointly from the employee , the employer and the state . |
| 19 | I used to get a pretty good idea of what was to come just from the way they shook hands with a grown-up . |
| 20 | I thought they 'd probably want to see the video I was splicing together from the footage we were getting on opium growing in the Bekaa Valley , but these were cops on a government-paid vacation . |
| 21 | The only let-downs are cabin styling which looks as if it was lifted directly from the Corolla and an overall lack of identity . |
| 22 | For our experiments we used a cubical tank of water seeded with silicon carbide grit of fairly uniform size , which was cooled uniformly from the top . |
| 23 | Byrne was carried away from the ring unconscious and died three days later without coming out of his coma . |
| 24 | Siddhi , who had been Foreign Minister for 10 years but was considered hostile to Chatichai 's Cambodia policy and to any rapprochement with Vietnam [ see p. 37654 ] , was dropped altogether from the government . |
| 25 | Istvan Gyulai , the secretary-general of the International Amateur Athletics Federation said that an official report was expected soon from the DLV and did not want to comment until then . |
| 26 | I ‘ m particularly concerned that the money was debited directly from the account with no authorisation from the council . |
| 27 | For a time it seems water was pumped straight from the canal and/or from a well perilously close to it ( see 1840 plan ) . |
| 28 | This meant that programming was done away from the workshop , in specialised departments . |
| 29 | This one followed him trustingly , its interest only evaporating when it was turned away from the bar we entered . |
| 30 | New Hartlepool MP Peter Mandelson claims the case of Natalie Readman , five , who was turned away from the town 's general hospital due to a shortage of beds , proves that the quality of local health services is being eroded by the government 's NHS reforms . |