Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pn reflx] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he started to pull himself together , returned to Hollywood and stayed sober — except for Sundays , when he would lock himself away and drink like a fish . |
| 2 | Why should a real man lock himself away from such pleasures , eh ? ’ |
| 3 | Is it Friend ? thought Chesarynth , sure that something about him would give himself away . |
| 4 | So he 's got to be careful , and he 's worried that he might give himself away by some tiny flicker of expression . |
| 5 | But does n't everybody give himself/herself away in such commonplace situations ? |
| 6 | Does he/she give himself/herself away ? |
| 7 | It got to the stage where she would lock herself away and not talk to me , or else have endless arguments . |
| 8 | Do n't give yourself away . |
| 9 | This month , if you can haul yourself away from such hypnotic topics , you should find a universe waiting to be conquered . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd like to write more characters who , by being deadly serious , would give themselves away … |
| 11 | By his own accounts , he could hardly keep himself away from the battle lines in Central America . |
| 12 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 13 | But Howard ca n't tear himself away from it . |
| 14 | But he could not tear himself away . |
| 15 | They would linger , he insisted , he could never tear himself away , they 'd miss the business in the morning , and the hotel . |
| 16 | Daryl , 32 , could n't tear herself away from her new boyfriend after they had lunch at a Manhattan diner . |
| 17 | Even now , when it would have been appropriate to leave the room , she could n't tear herself away . |
| 18 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 19 | Europe 's highest mountain railway which beings in Grindelwald and climbs through magnificent scenery to the Jungfrau is a must ; and there are excursions to Berne and Lucerne , if you can tear yourself away from the mountains for long enough ! |
| 20 | " Anyway , if you can tear yourself away , could we both go in 208 ? |
| 21 | He had come home , it was beginning to seem , in order to finally wrench himself away from all his father represented , and not only him but the even more hateful world of the van Goghs ; the art dealers , the bourgeoisie , polite society , ‘ them ’ . |
| 22 | Adam closed the front door and stood there for a moment as if he could not wrench himself away . |
| 23 | She 'd never throw herself away on some dirty old man . ’ |
| 24 | Hating the thought that she was eavesdropping , Julia still could not force herself away and half turned to see David gently pushing his mother upright again . |
| 25 | I wish you 'd take yourself away from me . ’ |
| 26 | What is certain is that we need to recapture the vision of the primitive church , for if only we could drag ourselves away from our television sets and unhook our headphones from our portable stereos we would hear the clear call to arms . |
| 27 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 28 | At last Benjamin would drag himself away and Johanna , screaming for her lost love , would be taken away by the gentle sisters . |
| 29 | He 'll hide himself away . |
| 30 | Her feet were like lead ; she could n't drag herself away . |