Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] away from " 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 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 3 | He levered himself away from her , as if he could n't trust himself to stay close , swinging his feet to the floor and rubbing a distracted hand over his jaw , and up through his hair . |
| 4 | She jerked herself away from him . |
| 5 | Describing herself as something of a ‘ social victim ’ , she has temporarily torn herself away from urban distractions in favour of time and space at a ‘ country abode ’ , where she is working on material for a second album , due in November . |
| 6 | When Donnington got home in that ridiculous Home Guard uniform of his and her daughter had torn herself away from those men , then all hell would break loose . |
| 7 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 8 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No longer sure that she could believe it , but still determined to make the best of her marriage , Julia managed to pull herself away from David . |
| 11 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 12 | Suddenly the idea of tearing herself away from Jack 's warm , firm body , even for a minute , seemed heartbreaking . |
| 13 | ‘ That one who was in that movie about that writer , ’ said Felicity , tearing herself away from herself and her rash . |
| 14 | She was tearing herself away from him and spinning round to face him , a storm in her eyes that was only part fury . |
| 15 | Tearing herself away from him , she viewed him distractedly , her mouth still sweetly aching from the impact of his kisses . |
| 16 | Reluctantly tearing herself away from Marc as they went to ready themselves for the ceremony later on , she changed rapidly into the coat-dress bought for the wedding , then did her face and piled up her hair . |
| 17 | She drew herself away from Matthew in sudden shyness . |
| 18 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Since downloading the file I 've had severe difficulty tearing myself away from this game , such is the enjoyment and frustration I 've had from it . |
| 20 | ‘ If ye can bear to pull yourself away from thon American machine , there 's more overtime goin' . |
| 21 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 22 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 24 | KEVIN Keegan ( right ) went into quarantine yesterday , but it was more than a niggling flu bug which persuaded him to lock himself away from his Newcastle players before the FA Cup fifth round tie at Blackburn . |
| 25 | Why should a real man lock himself away from such pleasures , eh ? ’ |
| 26 | Pushing himself away from the walls of the KGB building , Kirov walked in the direction of the Post Office . |
| 27 | Pushing herself away from him with a jerk , she found herself locked into his taunting gaze . |
| 28 | This month , if you can haul yourself away from such hypnotic topics , you should find a universe waiting to be conquered . |
| 29 | In practice it is extraordinarily difficult to tear ourselves away from that tiny part of the situation which has attracted our attention and aroused our emotions , in order to consider the whole . |
| 30 | His intensity was contrived ; already he had closed himself away from her . |