Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] away [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had , in fact , been sent to a counsellor by a client who 'd moved away before finishing therapy . |
| 2 | With quotes like that , Nicholson also became tagged as a ‘ thinking ’ actor , and , in 1970 , as some of the stronger influences of the Sixties began to fall away with remarkable speed , was another influence that could be troubling any actor : the state of Hollywood itself . |
| 3 | The multi-billion-pound business had already taken a severe thrashing last year , as the outside world began to shrink away from growing violence . |
| 4 | But last year American Airlines and United started nibbling away at this business when they replaced bankrupt Pan Am and TWA on many of the services between America and London . |
| 5 | Maybe they flew past each other and started to move away from each other . |
| 6 | Ever since her teens she had sensed such shortcomings in herself , but had shied away from any kind of self-analysis . |
| 7 | And er until it became the time when the thing got smaller and smaller and we finally had to do away with that place . |
| 8 | She had walked away from finishing school and she had walked away from Miss Vacani 's ; and her parents had never sought to interfere with her freedom , or impose restrictions on her . |
| 9 | In other words , almost two out of three of the participants had kept away from further trouble through drink . |
| 10 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 11 | If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed . |
| 12 | Suddenly , I wanted to get away from that place — and I had an idea ! |