Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bourn did not boast an anemometer we had to quickly learn wind speed by other means , such as how much or how little the trees were bending in the wind and whether the distant windsock was at full stretch or hanging limply from its staff . |
| 2 | Not all alternatives are looked at , rather those most familiar to decision-makers or deviating least from existing practice are examined first , in order to cut down the information and transition costs associated with more radical changes . |
| 3 | Of all communities , the disabled are , understandably , the most jealous of any suggestion that they are being patronised or treated differently from others . |
| 4 | She would joke about the young ‘ uns with fat bums , riding around in cars and we would marvel at the so-called disabled people dismounting briskly from buses or climbing energetically from orange-badged cars . |
| 5 | Political influence : that is , the ability of one group to dominate others , or to have preponderant influence over decision-making , or to benefit advantageously from decisions . |
| 6 | Even if it meant sitting on her doorstep until she either came out of her flat or came home from wherever she was . |
| 7 | So , as soon as the misbehaviour begins , turn away or walk away from your child ; pretend not to see or hear what is going on ; say nothing and try not to show any expression at all ; resist getting into any debate , argument or discussion with your child while he or she is misbehaving . |
| 8 | Pulled from the river with her nightdress apparently wound around her head , she provided Magritte with an image which haunted his art and inspired the long and diverse series of compositions in which the head is concealed by a veil or an apple , metamorphosed into a plank of wood , or shown only from the back view . |
| 9 | Focus is on SPACE for the warm-up , running in circles , lines or groups ; building STRENGTH ( perhaps by squeezing a ball or pulling away from mother ) ; developing SKILLS ( for example , throwing , chasing and balancing ) , then progressing to Bunny-hops , rolling and spinning . |
| 10 | There may be some who find it relaxing to make some test-tubes or cut out some filter-papers ; and apparatus to investigate previously unsuspected effects must be made from scratch , or assembled opportunistically from things designed for old purposes ; but ready availability of apparatus is an enormous bonus to the scientist , and the growth of science led to a flourishing trade . |
| 11 | Or stuck together from various descriptions like an identikit picture ? |
| 12 | Perhaps on a hundredth of those thousand times , seeing her there , it had moved him to think how in so many towns like Odborough men were looking up at her as they shut shops or walked home from mills and mines . |
| 13 | In any case , there are almost certain to be many transactions which are difficult to discover or to understand merely from the books and papers of the company . |
| 14 | There is one person responsible for ensuring that the individual does not ‘ slip through the net ’ or drift away from the service , a factor which is particularly important in mental health services . |
| 15 | There are not enormous amounts of hazardous waste either arising here or coming here from elsewhere to be disposed of in an uncontrolled manner . |
| 16 | Most of the financial systems now targeted at the Unix market have grown out of software that was originally designed for use on PCs , or ported across from older mainframe systems and out of date mid-range platforms . |
| 17 | At other times I may be delighted to see them , for if the writing is not going well the writer welcomes any excuse to lay down his pen or turn away from the typewriter . |
| 18 | Talk at or across it , do n't move about too much or turn away from it . |
| 19 | If you kill the people you love — or run away from them — you only smash yourself in the end . |
| 20 | Replicators do n't behave , do n't perceive the world , do n't catch prey or run away from predators ; they make vehicles that do all those things . |
| 21 | And now he was here , a different life , learning not to forget his past and not trying to hide or run away from it but rather learning how to hit back , to use the overwhelming anger he had in him to both constructive and destructive ends . |
| 22 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 23 | ‘ Keep away from him , Izzie , or stay away from us till you 're done for too . ’ |
| 24 | Shop till you drop among the world 's most madding crowd , or stay far from it in the fragrant forests of The Land Between |
| 25 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 26 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 27 | When John Howard died , ‘ Texas ’ was known only to a small number of Mexicans , American Indians and the occasional settler who had been thrown out of , or wandered away from , the established ‘ colonies ’ to the north and east . |
| 28 | A major advantage of the above examples is that they do not require participants to give up their jobs or move away from their homes and families to undertake training . |
| 29 | Outcidence is the opposite of incidence , and primarily consists of those users who stop taking heroin , but also includes a small proportion of users who die or move away from the area of study . |
| 30 | No tall figure loomed over the till as she was serving , or appeared suddenly from behind the window displays . |