Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine of The Abbott sounded deafening in the silence , the loud spluttering replaced rapidly by a rumble as the boat moved away from the pier . |
| 2 | The boat moved away from the island and I waited until it was out at sea . |
| 3 | Sir Harold sat still , his eyes turned away from the window , his head full of old dreams . |
| 4 | For a moment his eyes turned away from the city to the sleeping form of Madra . |
| 5 | Her pale blue eyes turned away from the interviewer and towards the camera . |
| 6 | Oman had reportedly favoured the formation of a regional defence force drawn exclusively from the Gulf states [ see p. 38364 ] . |
| 7 | In such transactions , trades negotiated away from the exchange 's central pricing system are turned into on-exchange trades . |
| 8 | A moment later the big brown car pulled away from the kerb . |
| 9 | Giants went ahead at 69-67 through Johnson and as the momentum swung away from the Finns , overall victory suddenly seemed a possibility . |
| 10 | Work hours were long , 10–12 hours per day , 6½days a week , with a one week break taken away from the islands every four weeks . |
| 11 | The other side of the escarpment was a fractured plateau , a great , cracked slab of rock tilted away from the summit of the ridge . |
| 12 | Ice cracked away from the hatch at a pressure from inside . |
| 13 | His pen moved away from the cheque-book . |
| 14 | ‘ Where are we ? ’ a child called sleepily from the back . |
| 15 | A built-up surround will have to be dismantled piece by piece , but with the other types , you can chop away the plaster just next to the surround until you find the brackets , after which the screws can be undone ( or the brackets sawn through ) and the fireplace surround levered away from the wall with a crowbar . |
| 16 | Some workers use modal values abstracted directly from the size frequency distribution by weight ( Friedman & johnson , 1982 ) but others advocate its derivation by recalculation from the gradient of the cumulative curve ( Griffiths , 1967 ; Folk , 1974b ) . |
| 17 | Accompanied by superb colour plates of objects drawn largely from the museum 's collection and newly re-photographed the multi-faceted , sometimes ethereal nature of glass is explored in all its astounding variety , from ancient civilisation onwards . |
| 18 | The judiciary and magistrates are of course drawn predominantly from the middle and upper classes ( see Box 1987 , p. 134–135 ) and as such can be expected to reflect the beliefs and prejudices of their class . |
| 19 | Plump , foreshortened varicosed thighs in red bloomers floated upwards from a circle of clutching work-worn hands to a reception committee of gaping cherubim . |
| 20 | The cage moved away from the dome and towards the hole . |
| 21 | For instance , in 1940 a British author of fairly conventional detective stories , Henry Wade ( who was in private life Sir Aubrey Fletcher , a magistrate and son of a full-time Metropolitan magistrate , and thus not unacquainted with police work ) wrote a book called The Lonely Magdalen , telling the story of a murder investigation seen largely from the point of view of the police officers conducting it . |
| 22 | A team drawn mainly from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne , directed jointly by the late Dr Nezih Firatli and myself , excavated in Istanbul from 1964 to 1969 for Dumbarton Oaks ( Harvard University 's centre for Byzantine research ) and the |
| 23 | It is the intention of the Secretary of State that a school that opts out of local authority control will not be allowed to change its character , similarly , a CTC must provide education for pupils of different abilities drawn mainly from the area in which the school is situated ( clause 105 subsection 2 ) . |
| 24 | The ideal study to confirm the hypothesis of Kraemer et al would have included a control group drawn randomly from the population , and followed in the same intensive manner as the study group . |
| 25 | These ideas of ours are draughts drawn straight from the vats of ecstasy . |
| 26 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 27 | There are some old buildings left apart from the ones mentioned , however most of the existing buildings are post-war . |
| 28 | Thirty girls between the ages of six and ten slept , ate and did their lessons in rooms with noble proportions , blistered stucco and peeling paint ; they were each permitted the character-building company of one small pet and one pony , and slept on iron beds left behind from the mansion 's use as a hospital for the wounded of World War I. |
| 29 | The lorry pulled away from the kerbside with Tony the driver looking helplessly at his two friends . |
| 30 | Many textile works have supplies of surface water taken directly from a river or impounded in reservoirs . |