Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved her limbs away from the valley in the middle of the bed and remembered , with pleasure , that Mr Sargent had promised her a swimming lesson . |
| 2 | It was as though she sucked her body away from the glass before she turned to Nicandra . |
| 3 | She caught his hand away from the radio . |
| 4 | Besides — ’ again she pried her eyes away from the eyeglasses and looked at her cousin ‘ — in just a few minutes you are going to be transformed into a femme fatale . |
| 5 | She turned her armchair away from the window . |
| 6 | Agnes put down her knife and fork and turned her head away from the table as she began to laugh ; Jessie was spluttering , too , as she said , ‘ You 've got no idea about some of the letters the girls make up , real naughty ones . |
| 7 | Ace turned her head away from the uncovered corpse . |
| 8 | She turned her head away from the hissing shadow and pressed her cheek to the wall . |
| 9 | She turned her face away from the light when she heard his voice , but Jan Coggan had also recognized her . |
| 10 | " Sit here , near me , and let's be cosy … oh , well , perhaps just a touch , " she turned her eyes away from the bottle and gazed absently at the passing crowd until her glass was quite full . |
| 11 | He turned his mind away from the private conviction that little Mickey Annan was somewhere lying dead ; deep beneath bracken on the moors ; under an old sack in some outhouse ; it did n't matter where . |
| 12 | While he sang to the girl the Don wants to come to her window , calling her his treasure , asking her not to be cruel , at least to let him see her , he looked at Alice , turned his face away from the audience who had gathered and looked at her . |
| 13 | He never listened to radio news in the mornings , and in the evenings he usually turned his chair away from the television set , so that he could read . |
| 14 | At the first waves of other-worldly congregational sound Lee swung her body away from the sight of these people and curled herself into a womb-like position , hugging her waist with her arms . |
| 15 | Alexandra thought they could n't stop , not possibly , but they did and she saw Punch 's face , two yards away , look towards her , blank with unrecognition until she smiled and waved her hand and then he too grinned , and ducked his head at her and swung his horse away from the wall again . |
| 16 | With an effort she pulled her gaze away from the tall figure clad in blue trousers and black T-shirt . |
| 17 | He pulled his ear away from the glass . |
| 18 | He pulled his eye away from the pinhole and , turning , saw a near neighbour who had last year changed her name , by deed poll , to Cruella Baines . |
| 19 | With difficulty Merrill kept her thoughts away from the mystery of that portrait . |
| 20 | Old Joseph kept his people away from the miners , and mocked Lawyer as the annuities promised in 1855 failed to arrive . |
| 21 | Boo does not conform to the community 's code because when he got into trouble at the age of 18 , his father , a very strict Baptist , undertook to punish his son himself , rather than let the law do it and for the rest of his life until he died , he kept his son away from the outside world and would not let him mix with the neighbours . |
| 22 | This , together with a gremlin who mischievously deflected his fingers away from the right notes — often at crucial if surprisingly undemanding points in the musical argument — added piquant harmonies and dissonances undreamed of by his composers . |
| 23 | Suddenly Gesner took his arms away from the wall . |
| 24 | He took his mouth away from the mailbox , and put an ear there instead . |
| 25 | But the room was warm , brightly lit and by no means uncomfortable so long as you kept your eyes away from the map-like stains on the rancid blue walls or the cigarette ends and other scraps on the floor . |
| 26 | The words followed Thorfinn as he flung his horse away from the gates . |
| 27 | Zach squinted through the glass and wiped his breath away from the pane . |
| 28 | Merrill tore her gaze away from the hard planes of his face , polished by the lamplight , the mysterious , exciting shadows around his eyes . |
| 29 | Terror gripped him anew , and he tore his eyes away from the insane glare he met there . |
| 30 | Isabel dragged her eyes away from the ground and stared at fitzAlan . |