Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [adv] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps you ought to spend a few hours away from the house , ’ Julius suggested , before she had time to stalk off . |
| 3 | Situated directly on the promenade and only a few steps away from the boat departure point , this beautiful art-nouveau building has been lovingly restored to combine the old style will all the comforts of a modern hotel . |
| 4 | The exact words , er I ca n't recall but er I talked the man out of the bed , still with his hands up and he took a few steps away from the bed . |
| 5 | She was only a few feet away from the buffer when a rat darted in front of her , and although she jerked her head back sharply its wet tail brushed against her cheek as it disappeared into a gap between the two lengths of corroded track . |
| 6 | To Joseph 's delight the Resident Superior led his entourage to the very front of the audience chamber and the American boy found himself standing only a few feet away from the throne where the Emperor Khai Dinh , a slender , almost feminine figure , sat swathed in a golden robe of richly embroidered silk . |
| 7 | Susan found it , dented and with loose jewels , a few feet away from the corpse . |
| 8 | It appears a few lines away from the plagiarised title of the book . |
| 9 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 10 | also the people on the ground I mean er surely it would n't do any harm to actually sit down and put some veiws forward from the whole department |
| 11 | Not until we were a few yards away from the perch could we turn , hold our arms out and release the jesses so that the bird could fly the rest of the way . |
| 12 | We are a few yards away from the Palace Pier and in an ideal position for all attractions including the Marina ; Conference Centre and ‘ The Lanes ’ . |
| 13 | Her car was parked a few yards away from the building . |
| 14 | Benjamin was standing a few yards away from the church , the ladder still in his hand . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's only a few yards away from the shop , so you could easily keep an eye on both . ’ |
| 16 | A beam flashed across the runway only a few metres away from the shuttle 's nose . |
| 17 | Not only is the system incapable of answering this type of question , even the General Theory gives us few clues apart from the somewhat cursory treatment of the two elasticities , e p and e y , in Keynes 's generalized quantity theory of money . |
| 18 | These came up in some numbers right from the beginning to the end of this strip . |
| 19 | Visitors to the resorts on the Dalmatian coast do not always realise the poverty and backwardness which lie over the mountains only a few kilometres away from the bright lights of Split , Zadar and Šibenik . |
| 20 | The end of the bedstead was only a few inches away from the drawers , but in her new tiny condition it appeared to be miles . |
| 21 | ‘ With Pharos , they will be just a few keystrokes away from the information they need to appreciate the detailed impact of community legislation on their businesses . ’ |
| 22 | A few streets away from the English Church , at the corner of Rua Ivens and Rua do Conselheiro beside the municipal gardens , is the Scottish Kirk . |
| 23 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 24 | Stephen is a boy of mixed Jamaican and St Vincentian parentage , born and raised only a few miles away from the white girl who provided the first narrative . |
| 25 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 26 | A highly significant addition during this time was an underwater ridge from the eastern Pacific ; after accretion it pulled apart to form the San Andreas Fault now a few miles inland from the coast . |
| 27 | I parked the car a few doors away from the Newton house , which looked neat enough behind a freshly painted fence , and ran the gauntlet of half a dozen youngsters who were all offering to mind my car . |
| 28 | Now , 18 days after the attacker was put behind bars , he 's been allowed to return home for a visit and he lives just a few doors away from the Strongs . |
| 29 | Before turning to consider the statutory provisions imposing the duty to give effect to parental preference , it is necessary first to consider the character of voluntary aided schools and the general law affecting admissions to such schools apart from the statutory duty imposed by section 6(2) of the Act of 1980 . |
| 30 | Rather ( for constructivism ) , there is no such order , and therefore no such facts apart from the procedure of construction as a whole ; the facts are identified by the principles that result . |