Example sentences of "us [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This , of course , takes us away from the ‘ here and now ’ . |
| 4 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 5 | It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory . |
| 6 | As the great machine of modernity spins remorselessly round , it has spun us away from the centre of social existence — community life , government , commerce , industry , education , welfare , leisure — to the peripheral margins of societal life . |
| 7 | The technique of rotational coherence spectroscopy illustrates particularly well the advantages of working in the time , rather than the frequency , domain — even if some of its most useful applications move us away from the femtosecond world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 10 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 11 | Our route soon took us away from the stream to open rolling countryside . |
| 12 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 13 | If anything could have frightened us away from the proposition it would have been the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to advance a sensible argument on anything at all . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 15 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 16 | Now the selection of pupils was another gamble and they were allocated to us straight from the various flying training schools . |
| 17 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 18 | It 's what sets us apart from the rest . |
| 19 | Our parliamentary tradition and constitutional development and our system of law have set us apart from the continent . |
| 20 | I hope that in reading this brochure you will identify some of the essence of Guinness Brewing Worldwide that sets us apart from the crowd . |
| 21 | This uniform of dark serge symbolized our insider status and separated us completely from the ‘ civvies ’ out there in the rest of the world . |