Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | " 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 . |
| 4 | With difficulty Merrill kept her thoughts away from the mystery of that portrait . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Suddenly Gesner took his arms away from the wall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Terror gripped him anew , and he tore his eyes away from the insane glare he met there . |
| 9 | Isabel dragged her eyes away from the ground and stared at fitzAlan . |
| 10 | Resolutely she averted her eyes away from the sleeping figure . |