Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In summary , she had not only slipped away from their definitions of appropriate female behaviour , she also forced them to acknowledge a strange and unexpected relationship of equality between her and her God . |
| 2 | When the ice at last melted and the seas rose , Sri Lanka had not only drifted apart from its parent India , it had become cut off by an ocean gap of approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) . |
| 3 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Just broken away from his girlfriend . |
| 6 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |
| 7 | I have contended that the success , and for that matter failure , of blacks in sport has nothing to do with so-called physical characteristics which they are all meant to share , nor with psychological predispositions which they clearly do not have , and certainly not with physical inheritances which are said to have been somehow transmitted genetically from their slave forefathers . |
| 8 | Matilda looked right back into the flashing eyes of this infuriated female giant and said with total calmness , ‘ I have not moved away from my desk , Miss Trunchbull , since the lesson began . |
| 9 | He also cited the fact that they had not profited personally from their conduct , that they had " a record of long and distinguished service " , and that all had already in terms of emotional anguish and damaged careers paid a price which was " grossly disproportionate to any misdeeds or errors of judgement they might have committed " . |
| 10 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 11 | Commentary : The common size statements merely confirm what we have already suggested above from our initial analysis , i.e. the gross profit has declined with a marked decline in 1988 and this has been accompanied by an increase in interest over the last years . |
| 12 | HAPPY campers Ron and Olive Saunders have just returned home from their 166th holiday at Butlins . |
| 13 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 14 | ‘ It takes two to make a baby … but men have always run away from their responsibilities . |
| 15 | Hereford probably expected more from their visit to Torquay … but one point from a nil-nil draw was enough . |
| 16 | The night duty men are also called early from their beds to parade for the football matches , therefore with insufficient sleep , coupled with hours of standing in the cold within a short space of rising from a warm bed , it is not surprising to have a heavy sick list … can not matters be arranged more conveniently for the family man ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mr Stevenson had also worked away from his home in Leyland , Lancashire before . |
| 19 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 20 | The burden of debt has also declined slightly from its peak 1981 levels , but as a result of curtailed imports rather than increased hard currency earnings . |
| 21 | As to the wife , she is now treated seperately from her husband , and her responsability is independant of his . |
| 22 | ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past . |
| 23 | It would be an illogical result , I think , if the paragraph gave a protection to a widow which the court had expressly taken away from her deceased husband , on whose tenancy she relies , that tenancy having been brought to a suspended end by the order for possession . |
| 24 | " I ca n't explain , " she said , quite recovered now from her passion and her tears . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | It was then cut away from his hand in hospital under general anaesthetic . |
| 27 | Triumphant , he threw the evidence down on the table beside the body , then stepped away from his handiwork , chucking the knife into the wound it had opened . |