Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] away [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 2 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 3 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 4 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 5 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 6 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 8 | When an inquisitive fish or crab provokes them to such action , it finds itself struggling in a mesh of filaments while the sea cucumber slowly inches itself away on the tube feet that protrude from its underside . |
| 9 | By his own accounts , he could hardly keep himself away from the battle lines in Central America . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 12 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 13 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 14 | Angrily , she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood . |
| 15 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 16 | She eased herself away from the rail . |
| 17 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 18 | When the immediate formalities were over , he left Algeria for the last time , and flew back to Paris , where he shut himself away in the house at St-Cloud , seeing no one . |
| 19 | Much of his childhood , after the death of his father , and early manhood was spent wresting himself away from the embrace of his mother . |
| 20 | ‘ No , Father , ’ Ellie replied , trying to manoeuvre herself away from the smell of stale whisky and nicotine . |
| 21 | She was an anchoress , one of the many recluses of the period who shut herself away from the world to pray in solitude : we can still see the foundations of her anchorage next to the church which is now called St Julian 's in Norwich . |
| 22 | Then the ship tore herself away from the reef , back broken , thirty feet of bow section diving free . |
| 23 | And United continued to haul themselves away from the basement with a two one win . |
| 24 | Boot sector viruses , such as Brain and Joshi , hide themselves away in the boot sector of a hard disk and are able to go memory-resident every time the PC is booted up . |
| 25 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |
| 26 | Connelly used every ounce of strength he had to push himself away from the cooker , but Farrell was a powerful man and forced the agent 's face ever closer to the ring . |
| 27 | With a shout of pain he tore his hand free , the flesh ripping as he dragged himself away from the knife , leaving it embedded in the wood . |
| 28 | The barman dragged himself away from the knot of men deep in conversation about the price fetched by a piece of land across the road . |
| 29 | Well I 'll have to move myself away from the school gate they can just they think I 'll be actually waiting |
| 30 | They were … sort of … writhing around … struggling … trying to push themselves away from the wall . |