Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 2 | Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you . |
| 3 | She felt curiously distanced now from all the problems of the morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The novelists considered so far have consistently broken away from fixed plot-sequences in the pursuit of authenticity and freedom . |