Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ormanroyd wins the header Speedy flicks it on again and Chettle er Chettle rather got it away as Jochim came in on him . |
| 2 | She was strong enough to take a certain amount of punishment if it meant that , in the end , Matthew would rid himself of that core of hatred which was slowly eating him away . |
| 3 | Exposed to Minton 's freewheeling , glamorous Bohemianism , some found it difficult afterwards to stand on their own feet , for Minton had effectively broken them away from their backgrounds or their jobs . |
| 4 | He pulled the syringe out , and weakly flung it away . |
| 5 | As she could n't yet swim properly the current might be strong enough to carry her away . |
| 6 | We only played them away . |
| 7 | So give it away , send it to a jumble sale , sell it if you can , or just throw it away . |
| 8 | Moreover , by curbing the worst excesses of capitalism , concessions cut into the grievances of the working class so turning them away from action for fundamental transformation . |
| 9 | With her mind muzzy from sleep and cold , instinct alone turned her away from the Welsh Back . |
| 10 | That he had not destroyed the books , but merely locked them away , was testament to some ambiguity in him , however . |
| 11 | It must be pointed out , however , that the defender 's outstretched arm tries , not to block the punch , but merely to guide it away by utilizing the turning stance , thus changing her front stance to a side stance . |
| 12 | ‘ It took a lot of thinking about — living in your own home and happy there for fifty years and suddenly to give it away . |
| 13 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 14 | So get them away from the mains and then what do you do ? |
| 15 | Her hand 's gone all limp , then she suddenly takes it away . |
| 16 | But the evil ravages of the British educational system at its worst were not enough to keep her away from her first love forever , and she started to cook with simplicity and a straightforward style which she has maintained . |
| 17 | I was seething , yes , but not enough to keep me away from you . |
| 18 | He gently pulled them away , staring down at her body . |
| 19 | Mike gently pulled her away from the sink and began washing up . |
| 20 | He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him , or even better take him away . |
| 21 | To give a man great joy , only to snatch it away , leaving him in great despair . |
| 22 | Anything short of a very near miss merely blew them away . |
| 23 | Whilst it rightly steers us away from naive and simplistic causal theories of deviance , it can hardly provide an approach which is substantially more fruitful . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm only putting them away . ’ |
| 25 | Hold your hands in this position for a few moments , then gently move them away . |
| 26 | ‘ We had better get her away from here , ’ said the Medjay healer , removing the last of the flies and quickly wrapping the corpse in a linen sheet before any more could settle . |
| 27 | To explain the intellectual polarities by reference to historical contingencies is not necessarily to explain them away . |
| 28 | She put her hand down to push him away and he grabbed it , squeezing it around the erect penis and forcing her to rub it up and down . |
| 29 | Two men from the side come in to drag him away . |
| 30 | He claims he only pushed her away but she fell back onto the knife . |