Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann-Marie Coombes was 16 when she crashed driving home from a pub . |
| 2 | These had probably been caused as Trixie tried to pull away from the heater . |
| 3 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 4 | She in turn tried to get away from the bird , but was so firmly strapped into the chair that she was unable to move . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ So far comments from Com Tech and MUA suggest that SCO will still be sold by both companies , but neither tried to shy away from the fact that their decisions will hurt SCO . |
| 7 | She strained her eyes into the broken circle of darkness , and a breath of ancient tension and fear seemed to issue chillingly from the hole the river had torn in history . |
| 8 | If he 'd been able to keep from gloating , she 'd have ended up in his bed , which was what he 'd intended right from the beginning . |
| 9 | It is up to you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , to decide whether hon. Members are in order , but I must say that the hon. Gentleman went on at considerable length about matters some of which seemed to stray interestingly from the subject of the amendment . |
| 10 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |
| 11 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 12 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 13 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 14 | According to our panel all three parties , including Labour , seemed to drift away from the issue as the campaign progressed . |
| 15 | What she 'd known instinctively from the start was absolutely right . |
| 16 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 17 | Before we 'd gone far from the hut we had lost one of the Germans with sickness , and an hour later the Dutchman had to turn back when he had trouble with his crampons . |
| 18 | His moustache seemed to droop further from the lack of good results . |
| 19 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 20 | But some few weeks later she happened to bring home from the library a volume of Marx 's early writings . |
| 21 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 22 | He began to walk away from the burial ground , his heart surging with excitement . |
| 23 | The ship had slowed its speed as passengers gradually began to drift away from the reception to enjoy their evening meal in one of the several top class restaurants . |
| 24 | Materials and food prices began to drift downwards from the summer of 1973 . |
| 25 | He began moving away from the ball when he began hitting those dreaded laterals with short irons . |
| 26 | Imperceptibly at first , the floor of the cabin began to tilt away from the horizontal . |
| 27 | She began to run away from the van , round the side of the building in the direction of Charley 's place . |
| 28 | Its work , once it had got under way , was slowed and complicated by disputes of this kind between the French and Spanish and French and imperial representatives , while the Venetian one , Contarini , threatened to withdraw altogether from the negotiations unless the comte d'Avaux , the leader of the French delegation , treated him on a basis of complete equality . |
| 29 | Soon it was clear that France was overrun and men began arriving home from the evacuation at Dunkirk . |
| 30 | Although through the efforts of Charlemagne , who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in the year 800 , the centre of European culture began to move northwards from the Mediterranean , the Viking raids of the ninth and tenth centuries delayed the full effects of this until about the year 1000 . |