Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] away from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 2 | They could not forget that the American government had already backed away from some of its more liberal inclinations on postwar world economic development in the face of various domestic pressure groups . |
| 3 | Significantly , the European areas of the ex-Empire that had been more pronounced than Belorussia in their ethnic and/or religious divergence from the Great-Russian norm had either broken away from Bolshevik Russia ( the Baltic littoral and Finland ) or else created serious difficulties for the Bolsheviks ( Georgia in 1922 ) . |
| 4 | They have not shied away from sensitive areas . |
| 5 | The novelists considered so far have consistently broken away from fixed plot-sequences in the pursuit of authenticity and freedom . |