Example sentences of "not [verb] [verb] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does not want to fade away from the scene . |
| 2 | Those who were not traced differed slightly from those who were : their birth weight was 0.2 pounds ( 91 g ) less , for example . |
| 3 | It was clear that Hannah would not consider moving far from her native heath and after lengthy deliberations , settled on a cottage in Cotherstone which stands five miles away from Low Birk Hatt at one of the entrances to Baldersdale . |
| 4 | The FRS is not expected to differ greatly from FRED 1 , The Structure of Financial Statements — Reporting of Financial Performance ( see ACCOUNTANCY , January , p 86 ) , but the ASB is thought to have extended the options for including the breakdown into continuing and discontinued operations in the notes , rather than on the face of the p&l account . |
| 5 | ‘ The practical skills and experience I have gained do not appear to differ widely from those gained by my friends in private practice . |
| 6 | Ambassador is happy to travel and does not become upset away from home . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a new friend , ’ Mrs Ames said , ‘ I should not like to stay away from home too long , just because of that . |
| 8 | She stepped down from the carriage and was going to leave him , when he stopped her and said , ‘ You 're not going to turn away from me like that , dear ? |
| 9 | She had not promised to stay away from other people . |
| 10 | His wife , not deigning to look up from the page , smiled to herself slightly . |
| 11 | Further , the authorities in a number of nuclear states have made unilateral statements of one kind or another which indicate that their nuclear weapons may not have escaped entirely from laws-of-war restraints . |
| 12 | Some men may not have gone far from their original homes , but others were willing to seek their fortune at a distance : the London merchant class was recruited from every part of the country , including the far North ( 104 , pp.210–12 , 389–92 ) . |
| 13 | The old standards of nursing management having superior status to clinical nurses are gradually phasing themselves out , and certainly in the future you will not have to move away from the bedside solely to boost levels of pay . |
| 14 | Thus the structure of spoken sentences need not have derived entirely from combination of words that had replaced single gesture types . |
| 15 | Haw , haw ! ’ — would not have differed greatly from an average week in your average sit-com . |
| 16 | Possibly , they might not have come back from that either . |
| 17 | Moore , indeed , dismisses as incoherent the idea that the parts of a thing may have characteristics they could not have had apart from that whole . |
| 18 | Not having set off from directly overhead Gransden ( a practice advisable in murky conditions ) we are slightly south of track . |
| 19 | My troopers may not manage to hold back from firing now . |
| 20 | Homozygotes for the mutation at codon 200 do not seem to differ clinically from heterozygotes , which indicates that inherited prion disease ( PrP lysine 200 ) is a fully dominant disorder . |
| 21 | The costumes for the Sadler 's Wells production were designed , at de Valois 's insistence , by Hedley Briggs , an old associate of hers , but they seem not to have differed materially from the ones by Hanns Ebensten which were used for the original Cape Town production . |
| 22 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 23 | It was somewhat similar with me ; the war was on , albeit far away , and I was missing it ; patriotism and duty did enter into the picture but I was chafing at the bit like Old Dobbin who could not bear to stay away from a fire ! |
| 24 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 25 | She stepped sideways , she did n't want to pull away from him but all the same this time she would have liked to wake up from her somnambulism to find herself back in bed with Cati , dreaming of sweetness and lovers ' words , but he pressed close to her , and said , ‘ You ca n't go yet , not yet . |
| 26 | I ca n't wait to get away from the Aged Ps again . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't wait to get away from this awful place . ’ |
| 28 | Unlike the creatures pursued by film-makers , which usually ca n't wait to get away from the camera crew , this lot ca n't wait to get close . |
| 29 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 30 | You grew up in the countryside and you could n't wait to get away from it ! |