Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 2 | One day he shied away from an empty crisp bag and fell into a ditch . |
| 3 | He shied away from her like a startled horse . |
| 4 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 5 | He stalked away from her to a cherrywood desk in the far corner . |
| 6 | Then , in the late summer of 1931 , he writes that he passed definitely from this position of ‘ rational meism , into a fall acceptance of the Christian dispensation . |
| 7 | Saying which he passed jauntily from their ken , shutting the door behind him with a flourish . |
| 8 | He rode away from me a day ago . |
| 9 | Yet in the matter of the primacy , which entailed the most extensive ecclesiastical power in western Europe apart from that of the papacy , he fought stubbornly from the beginning to the end of his archiepiscopate against every papal or local obstacle to the exercise of this power . |
| 10 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 11 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 12 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 13 | He got away from her and looked for Dangerfield . |
| 14 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 15 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
| 16 | ‘ He got away from me and came for me with his fists . |
| 17 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
| 18 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 19 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
| 20 | He straightened away from the stone urn and slipped his hands back into his trouser pockets . |
| 21 | He straightened away from her and turned his attention to the man on the floor . |
| 22 | He read hard from the beginning — everything from the most popular to the most awesome works . |
| 23 | He dined discriminatingly from out of a stasis-box on spiced foetal lambkin stuffed with truffles ; and he sipped gloryberry juice . |
| 24 | He jerked away from me . |
| 25 | Abruptly he jerked away from her , no longer touching her although still kneeling before her with his head bent . |
| 26 | He moved confidently from the two charming putti who supported the tablet to Major the Honourable Clement Braithwaite , fallen at Peshawar in 1840 , to that of the religious and virtuous Clarissa , relict of Bertrand Hardy of this county . |
| 27 | He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs . |
| 28 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 29 | He moved away from me . |
| 30 | In fact , however , the second point — the reality of God 's giving himself to be known in Jesus Christ — was always the real focus of his concern , and he came to stress it more and more as the years passed , and as he moved away from what he later said to have been the one-sidedness of his earlier writings . |