Example sentences of "[verb] away [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 2 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 3 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 4 | Suddenly I have twisted the gun out of his hand — but it flies away from us across the ground . |
| 5 | At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre . |
| 6 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 7 | I measure sixty paces along the wall and then walk away from it to the nearest tree . |
| 8 | I mean , here am I , chattering away to you about the outcome of the war … and you actually know , Cassie . |
| 9 | The blue train is pulling away from me in the drizzle , gathering speed , effortlessly accelerating along its elevated track . |
| 10 | He wrenched himself from her arms , leaving her suddenly chilled although the night was still very mild , and paced away from her on the veranda , then circled back to stare down at her once again , his face set in a grim , frowning mask . |
| 11 | He looked up and he saw two people walking or appearing to walk away from him down the white road of the tunnel and out across the green hills . |
| 12 | Scotland seem to have got away with it at the moment . |
| 13 | Managers need to be alert to the influences that in combination persuade staff to take ( and condone others taking ) short cuts through the safety rules and procedures because , mistakenly , the perceived benefits outweigh the risks , and they have perhaps got away with it in the past . |
| 14 | Do you think you could keep away from me by the way ? |
| 15 | But then there were the terns getting away with it on the other side of the window . ’ |
| 16 | On the contrary : he 's here to get rid of them , to lose them , to drift away from them in the heat and safety of the crowd . |
| 17 | The Tirajana apartments are ideal for those wishing to enjoy the nightlife and then get away from it at the end of the day . |
| 18 | I stepped away from him towards the wall . |
| 19 | As they walked away from him through the greenness , the pale blue above them , Maggie said , her voice thick with emotion , ‘ Daddy is just lovely when he 's like that . ’ |
| 20 | We 'll ride away from them at the walk . ’ |
| 21 | She stopped , aware that her tongue was running away with her in the heat of the moment . |
| 22 | Mum and Dad were all tight and not saying much and Annie just chatted away to me in the back and Simon kept licking at the suitcase like it was a bone or summat . |
| 23 | ‘ Give me time , ’ and she looked away from him at the distant hills . |
| 24 | Aunt Emily looked away from her into the fire . |
| 25 | If you are n't as good as if you were in church , the train wo n't come , and we sha n't go away in it to the ends of the earth . |
| 26 | I had a brief view of flailing arms and flying pans followed by a prolonged metallic clatter , then the little man reappeared like a projectile , turned right and sped away from me up the street . |
| 27 | That does n't mean to say that you 'd have let them necessarily get away with it on the spot but you you 're still going to do a persuasive tact but in the end if they say no fine . |
| 28 | Will he get away with it for the rest of his life ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Still , could n't you get away from it for the next week or so — till she 's gone back ? ’ |
| 30 | Léonie edged away from her on the warm plastic seat . |