Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] away from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |
| 4 | You see , I needed to see you away from the château , and I could n't be sure you 'd come with me today . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had to get them away from the rocks that edged the shore like jagged teeth . |