Example sentences of "[v-ing] away [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His arms held , though now she had wedged her hands in between her breasts and the hard wall of his chest and was pushing away from him with all her might .
2 I want to fall in love , she thought , looking away from him with helpless distaste .
3 He was shouting and people were breaking away from him on both sides .
4 During the course of a conversation , her voice would slowly fade away , and she would lapse into silence , staring away from him with blank eyes , a wistful smile on her face .
5 And now what she had to do was maintain her temper at white heat until he had pumped his pleasure into her so that she would not lose her nerve — and possibly her satin — by cringing away from him at that vital last moment — vital for him , fatal perhaps for her — and pleading with him not to make her pregnant .
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