Example sentences of "not [verb] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to will her longing into an unexamined haze but she could not stay away from the post office on Monday . |
| 2 | For weeks he tried not to go near it , but he could not stay away from it for long . |
| 3 | Wickham 's initial feeling was that if it were true the only surprising thing was that Barron had not flown away sooner . |
| 4 | A practising engineer until the age of forty , Albert Ayme did not throw away his slide-rule and set-square when he decided to devote himself entirely to painting . |
| 5 | Trim the nozzle tip to give the required sealant width , making the cut at 45° ( do not throw away the nozzle tip ) |
| 6 | For God 's sake , Pippa , let's not throw away five years . |
| 7 | Because mulberry trees are usually found in the centre of a lawn , not hidden away in the kitchen garden or grown in an orchard , they often provide a focus for children 's play . |
| 8 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 9 | It 's one of m it 's one of my me memories I 've erm hidden , well not hidden away but tucked away to look at in |
| 10 | WOLVES manager Graham Turner , desperate not to fall away from the Division One promotion pacesetters , looks set to move for Morton striker Alex Mathie . |
| 11 | As he left the room he urged Elisa not to go away before he got back . |
| 12 | But his affections were always specific ; they were not given away to all-comers . |
| 13 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 14 | We had a remarkable woman for a nurse or " Mother 's help " as she was called even in those days , because Mother liked bringing up her own children and was always around , with the nursery the centre of the house , and not tucked away upstairs . |
| 15 | She 's not tucked away here . ’ |
| 16 | She would not bathe away the smell of him , and slipped an overall over her bare skin . |
| 17 | He took a couple of strides towards her , and it was all she could do not to cower away . |
| 18 | This is formulated not to strip away too much of the hair 's natural oils which lubricate the hair , stop moisture loss , and help hair to be more manageable . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not runnin' away like I did the last time . ’ |
| 20 | Peter Ward agrees : ‘ People are not walking away from the car . |
| 21 | City ( 6th ) , who have not won away in the League since November , are without Quinn ( hamstring and dislocated finger ) , with player-manager Reid likely to recall himself . |
| 22 | Clough 's rock-bottom Forest have not won away all season , Coppell 's second-to-bottom Palace have not tasted victory at home — but both managers can count on one thing … their jobs are safe as houses . |
| 23 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 24 | Rooted near the bottom of the table , they had not won away from home for nearly two years . |
| 25 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 26 | He reckoned mainframes are likely to decline — but not fade away completely — eventually functioning as clients alongside mid range Unix systems , local networks and workstations in the greater scheme of things . |
| 27 | They have not shied away from sensitive areas . |
| 28 | But in this meeting the absolute difference between the two sides remains : it is not dissolved away in a ‘ coincidence of opposites ’ , an ‘ identity in difference ’ , an ‘ eternal God-man unity ’ . |
| 29 | That was the final insult , then ; Tony , after hearing Felicity 's opinion of him , had not crept away in chastened mood , but had consoled himself with sandwiches . |
| 30 | That means keeping one 's ears and eyes open , it means not looking away but acting as a witness . |