Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 2 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 3 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 4 | She got into the flat-bottomed boat and tried to push it away from the bank but the pole stuck in the mud and the boat was too heavy for her to move . |
| 5 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |
| 6 | You see , I needed to see you away from the château , and I could n't be sure you 'd come with me today . |
| 7 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 8 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 9 | He had a full bomb load , but managed to level the plane long enough for his crew to bail out , then he managed to steer it away from the town and crash into a nearby field . |
| 10 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 11 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 12 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |
| 13 | Connelly used every ounce of strength he had to push himself away from the cooker , but Farrell was a powerful man and forced the agent 's face ever closer to the ring . |