Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does it mean when rape and sexual violence are no longer quite so hidden away from the public view ? |
| 2 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 3 | 1971 ) , the original convergence thesis itself has become somewhat modified away from an emphasis on a trend towards uniformity . |
| 4 | There are one or two passably funny lines which fail to make up a coherent , witty whole but are suddenly shot out from an invisible pea-shooter as if whipped from Ms Rudner 's stand-up routine . |
| 5 | But he simply listened , said he was sympathetic , and that Chris could not be expelled , only moved away from the parish . ’ |
| 6 | The square was gently raised away from the face . |
| 7 | As built by Franklin the outer stumps were so slanted away from the middle that the balls were only precariously balanced . |
| 8 | The strange , abstract and logically fantastic world of the mathematicians remained somewhat isolated both from the general and the scientific public , perhaps more so than before , since its main contact with both , physics ( through physical technology ) , appeared at this stage to have less use for its most advanced and adventurous abstractions than in the great days of the construction of a celestial mechanics . |
| 9 | Several papers report on Goldie the goldfish which was apparently brought back from the dead when its owner gave it the kiss of life and poured whisky down its throat . |
| 10 | Nils may be a good cook , but his time will be better spent away from the galley . |
| 11 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 12 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 13 | Polio , apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region , had already reduced their numbers . |
| 14 | For no other subject of public concern — not for economic policy , disarmament , welfare reform , nuclear power plants — has the professional outlook on a controversy been so shut off from a voice in the national press . |
| 15 | Although they accept that these numbers include practising Christians unable — or unwilling — to pay the tax , they believe that most are people who have long drifted away from the church . |
| 16 | A motor extracts air through a replaceable filter and powders are gently drifted away from the operator . |
| 17 | The charge is let in or out of each capacitor by its own switch but the charge continually drains away so it needs to be constantly topped up from the mains or battery . |
| 18 | They would never have understood , would have perhaps backed away from the possibility of seeing anything but the smiling , assured , beautiful and wealthy Alyssia Stanley . |
| 19 | Grey Plovers are rarely seen away from the coast in Sussex , but there have been six such records since 1947 in March , April , May , October ( three together ) , November , and December . |
| 20 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 21 | This consists of four separate buildings : the baptistery , the cathedral , the campanile and the cemetery ( this last , the Camposanto , was badly damaged in the Second World War but is now largely rebuilt apart from the beautiful frescoes which were for the most part beyond repair ) . |
| 22 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 23 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 24 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 25 | Well it was if it 's only just come through from the fryer |
| 26 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 27 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 28 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 29 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 30 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |