Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] me away " in BNC.

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1 Taggy turned me away !
2 I was a boy of about thirteen snows when my parents sent me away into the hills … to find my Wyakin .
3 He asked the director to get me away from him .
4 I 'm looking for a rich husband to take me away from it all . ’
5 You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him .
6 Some barnyard crone turned me away .
7 Finally we got off in a street with enormous shops with beautiful window displays : I could have stood gazing at them for hours , but Mary pulled me away .
8 Fortunately his father took me away at once , and angrily hit the boy hard on the head .
9 I should never have let your father drive me away from you .
10 The police put me away for my own safety . ’
11 Of course , Benjamin hustled me away to a corner by ourselves and that was n't hard , everyone now distanced themselves from us .
12 But you 'll never have the strength to send me away — you 're so weak , Bob , that it embarrasses me — and in the end the job will fall to me ; I shall have to send myself away .
13 ‘ For I called on the sea to bear me away , and I came down to this isle and took it for my own .
14 But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away .
15 So Butch and Caduta lead me away .
16 ‘ My family hid me away for months .
17 Then the organ grinder pulled me away and I began to cry and pull at his coat .
18 We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day
19 ROBBIE You used to say you could always tell what was bothering me , you said my face gave me away .
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