Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I eat the meal inside the tent to get away from the wind , and even there I need an extra jacket . |
| 2 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 3 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 4 | The thing about the solo is that it should really be a chance for the guitar to take over from the vocalist and really hit you in the heart like vocals can , and I 'm sorry but these heavy metal solos can never really hit you because it 's just music by numbers . ’ |
| 5 | Civil Service have conceded fewer goals than any other team in the division , and had Howell not taken the decision to stand down from the top flight , he could have been elevated to the Scottish senior international training squad this summer . |
| 6 | Bath 's No.8 is the favourite to take over from the British Lion after Leicester confirmed yesterday that Richards would miss the rest of the season . |
| 7 | The three cornerstones of this legislation were : the attempt to break away from the categorisation of children , allied to the concept of a continuum of need ; the importance attached to successful integration ; and the belief that a partnership with parents was vital . |
| 8 | I was glad of the break to get away from the monotony of the orchard with the constant sniping and mortaring . |
| 9 | Peter then approaches the blackboard on which he writes the date , 5 November : this is the cue for the jazz to take over from the calypso ( in more strident tones than before ) as an indication of the disturbing events which follow . |
| 10 | Pigeon-toed beneath her crinoline , Louisa clapped his performance , and the sound of her clapping sped across the ice to echo back from the trees . |
| 11 | ‘ I go to the pub to get away from the wife ’ … |
| 12 | The aim to move away from the language of entitlement to the language of obligation is very different from the language of freedom and liberty which dominated the earlier phases of Thatcherism . |
| 13 | This may be in part a search for higher returns but it must also be a function of the desire to diversify away from the risk of the domestic market . |
| 14 | Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries . |
| 15 | Ten PPP MPs from Sind demanded the right to sit separately from the main PPP block in the National Assembly . |
| 16 | A letter appears above the person and typing the letter allows the person to jump away from the spear . |
| 17 | Joyce wisely decided to take her three smallest charges around the block to get away from the trauma , and to give herself chance to adjust to the idea . |
| 18 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 19 | This crying , this wailing , this mass of thick air gathered from thousand upon thousand square miles of nothingness , scooped up , pushed and banked against every object which has the temerity to stand up from the surface of the earth ; this was weird , oppressive , invasive . |
| 20 | That day , as we waited for the doctor to come back from the mountains , was one of deep anxiety for the whole family . |
| 21 | ‘ I involved myself by phoning the hotel to find out from the boss what was going on . |
| 22 | It is the process of trying to persuade by substituting power for reason — the power being the ability to walk away from the deal and leave the other person stranded , the power to give the other person less than required — and sometimes nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ Sometimes it is important for the individual to step back from the fray , ’ said , ‘ and describe to themselves what the work problems are and build up an action programme for themselves . |
| 24 | As a Race Today editorial ( in October 1974 ) put it , ‘ the section to benefit most from the trade unions are white men over the age of thirty-five . |
| 25 | ‘ I know , ’ Whitlock replied but made no attempt to move away from the railing . |
| 26 | And er I 'd got a key to get in from the works into the office once I was inside , but that was access to the works you know and er I er I en I enjoyed it more or less and I must say the firm , to some extent , looked up to me and I 'd only got to have a damned machine stop , where the girls was working on this machine , and the bobbin shop and all that sort of thing , and I was able to go look er , down and say look here I want this . |
| 27 | A body to take over from the Wagner Development Group . |
| 28 | For the Liberal Democrats , Sir David Steel , former leader and party spokesman on foreign affairs , said that , while the mood for change was strong , there was no wish for separatism and no desire to walk away from the Union . |
| 29 | His decision to repeal them followed , according to the state news agency , a request to do so from the government of the new Prime Minister Taher al-Masri [ see p. 38311 ] , to be in line with moves " to continue building our democratic march and to give greater political freedoms " . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're going to throw away a chance to get away from the ship for a while ? |