Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] away [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I came away with this sort of inside information |
| 2 | Suzie and I ease away from each other . |
| 3 | Often I climbed away from one bolt without being able to see where the next one was , and this added a new dimension to route finding . |
| 4 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 5 | In return , she offered to look after my own birds when I went away for one weekend ( it was after the war but rationing was still in force , and most people who could , kept chickens ) . |
| 6 | But I kept away from that side of the coast , so that the people of Blefuscu would not see me . |
| 7 | If your shoulders are curving forward towards each other , think of them going away from each other . |
| 8 | Instinctively she shied away from that idea , and accepted then that this interview business was nowhere near as easy as Cara had made out that it would be . |
| 9 | She shied away from architectural accuracy — she could have a gingerbread house if it was her ideal . |
| 10 | She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven . |
| 11 | She turned away with mingled sadness and determination . |
| 12 | She turned away from that thought , unwilling to look it in the face . |
| 13 | So you get away with that way but percentages is a phrase to avoid very in a will shares |
| 14 | She walked away down Milvain Street as fast as it was possible for her feet to hit the ground . |
| 15 | She shrank away in undisguised terror as he sat on the edge of the bed , reaching for her hand . |
| 16 | And so I hope that , as you go away from this place , that you will really go away with the knowledge , and with the technical know-how , to put across the work which , as I said earlier , we all recognize is a very important part in these coming months and years . |
| 17 | You stay away from that man ; he is bad news . |
| 18 | Nervous , she drifted away towards another couple still standing by the door . |
| 19 | You would n't honestly expect me to let you get away with that sort of behaviour , would you ? ’ |
| 20 | If you take away with one hand , give with the other — but at another , appropriate time . |
| 21 | This makes them move away from each other and so tends to make the star expand . |
| 22 | In discussing texts we idealise away from this variability of the experiencing of the text and assume what Schutz has called ‘ the reciprocity of perspective ’ , whereby we take it for granted that readers of a text or listeners to a text share the same experience ( Schutz , 1953 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ The market is not going to grow until we get away from this distress purchase idea — that 's the easy way of selling it . |
| 24 | ‘ The market is not going to grow until we get away from this distress purchase idea — that 's the easy way of selling it ’ — Peter Karsten |
| 25 | Then , again inevitably , we turn away for another change of view , perhaps this time towards the Propylaea and Nike Apteros . |
| 26 | So we went away into this place called Short Strand |
| 27 | Most of the 6 million tonnes of paper that we throw away in this country every year has to be buried in holes in the ground . |
| 28 | In the following April John II , fearing that the dauphin , Charles , who was duke of Normandy , was plotting against him with members of the Navarrese party and others , went secretly to Rouen and , as the dauphin was entertaining his guests to dinner , arrested some and had them led away to immediate execution . |
| 29 | In the end , they got away with one pit stop to tighten a loose nut on the adjustable skates . |
| 30 | ‘ I think they got away in another truck , ’ he said . |