Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] away from [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 2 | Sabah , aged 28 , and his brother , ‘ Abd al-Karim , aged 21 , were both taken away from their home in al-Fahahil on 7 March by seven or eight men in masks and civilian clothes and one in military uniform . |
| 3 | It 's one of those things that you always take for granted till it 's obviously taken away from you . |
| 4 | In memory her face is always turned away from me . |
| 5 | The Christians good news is that guilt and shame that I have of such behaviour is actually taken away from me . |
| 6 | She was mostly turned away from him ; he could just see the curve of her cheek , the line of her nose , and as he watched she put her head down very slightly . |
| 7 | The trooper in attendance kept pace , but his head was mostly turned away from his charge while he studied the occasional stands of trees or searched the landscape for hidden folds from which an ambush might be mounted . |
| 8 | It was then cut away from his hand in hospital under general anaesthetic . |
| 9 | ‘ What no-one condones is raking the head and we just still ca n't accept what happened to Victor Ubogu on the B tour last year when his ear was almost sliced away from his head . ’ |