Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations , and are these cracking away from the main building ? |
| 2 | Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires . |
| 3 | Many farm workers recognize this as an unavoidable aspect of living away from the main centres of industry , and while they may occasionally recognize the limitations which are imposed upon their freedom to choose both employment and housing , they are not necessarily embittered by it . |
| 4 | ‘ After the quarantine period 's over , ’ he went on , with an air of simplifying an impossibly complex process , ‘ the containers are transferred into the decanning cave through a series of sub-ponds leading off from the main storage pond . |
| 5 | The place that Fenella thought might be a fuelhouse was a small , added-on section , jutting out from the main body of the Workshops . |
| 6 | Fenella remembered the houses on Renascia and how they had nearly always had sculleries and washing houses jutting out from the main rooms . |
| 7 | Simmons 's rooms were next to the staircase , not , as she had hoped , overlooking the quadrangle , but facing away from the main college building . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're getting away from the main subject . |
| 9 | Moving away from the main season reduces the chances of a windy afternoon . |
| 10 | However , over the years this has been augmented by dwellings branching out from the main road . |
| 11 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |
| 12 | If you locked up one of these shawlies , as you were coming away from the Main Bridewell , you would usually find a deputation of shawlies coming running down the road . |
| 13 | Ideally , the carpet should lie with the pile running away from the main , or only , window in the room . |
| 14 | to use trip chain analysis to identify categories of travel that are amenable to analysis and modelling separately from the main peak-hour movements . |
| 15 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |