Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] away from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the woman she had given Cara 's card to hove into view her heartbeats steadied , for the person who accompanied her was not male but was a pinafore-clad woman of about the same age who , duster in hand , had obviously been brought away from her cleaning duties . |
| 2 | The single page has obviously been torn away from the Treasury tag that once attached it to its fellows and there is no sign of the promised annexes . |
| 3 | With hindsight , I would recommend only one breeding pair to a tank , or the other fish are constantly being chased away from one nest or another . |
| 4 | She has not been held away from home for long . ’ |
| 5 | At this temperature atoms form a ‘ plasma ’ which carries an electric charge and can thus be kept away from the walls of the container by a magnetic field . |
| 6 | The performance has to be convincing , or they will not be lured away from the vulnerable nest or young . |
| 7 | It was the only thing I owned , the only thing which could not be taken away from me . |
| 8 | The Clark 's Yard Traders Association welcomed the proposals but stressed the need for a variety of shops so trade would not be taken away from existing cafes . |
| 9 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 10 | Have you ever been tempted away from your tried and tested gear by anything that you 've seen ? |
| 11 | This is scandalous because no child should ever be turned away from a church . |
| 12 | Again , every hairpin , every mark of phrasing and dynamic , registered without the slightest attention ever being drawn away from the music to the players . |
| 13 | Ageing machinery that opens or teases wool , a ‘ fearnought ’ , has also been moved away from the blend bins and a new one inserted at an earlier stage of production . |
| 14 | With the Tories also there , attention could eventually be shifted away from the old disputes and onto the business of who governs the state and in whose interest . |
| 15 | For Moby it was especially important because , as with most pups , he had correctly been kept away from parks and streets for health reasons during that critical early period of socialisation until his vaccination course had taken effect . |
| 16 | Resources , however , have increasingly been directed away from community-based HIV prevention towards mass media campaigning . |
| 17 | His mouth closed swiftly over her anguished lips , to reassure her that his need was real and would n't be snatched away from her in a punishing gesture . |
| 18 | Peut-etre Wilko was aussi pissed off with him because he could n't be arsed away from home … |
| 19 | German political ambitions would then be turned away from nationalism to Europeanism , and Western European co-operation would also prevent Germany being lured into the Soviet camp . |
| 20 | Actors David Suchet ( Poirot ) and Hugh Lattimer ( Hastings ) were filmed deep in conference inside their Pullman coach ‘ Finall ’ and then stepping out of the coach and then being driven away from Horsted Keynes Station — renamed for the day — by vintage car . |
| 21 | Opera librettos , as Hans Keller has written , should never be discussed away from the music they have helped to bring into existence . |