Example sentences of "[noun sg] away and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE have warned people to be on their guard after a smooth-talking gang conned an elderly woman into giving her bank cash card away and disclosing her PIN number . |
| 2 | He turned the horse away and walked off , ignoring her , and she went back to the house seething with annoyance . |
| 3 | Then , before he has quite finished , and he 's associating the trailer with a good place to be , take the horse away and repeat the Meals on Wheels business again the next day . |
| 4 | ‘ One barged past me and said I was not going to be taking the car away and became abusive . |
| 5 | She recoiled from the blatant rejection in his voice , snatching hand and mouth away and flinging herself angrily on to her back . |
| 6 | Throw your Augustus Hare away and pick up your receiver ; Venice is to be wired for sound . |
| 7 | She dragged her glance away and reached hurriedly up to Peter before he closed the door . |
| 8 | She jerked her glance away and pretended to adjust the strap of her bag . |
| 9 | The battles of Penselwood and Sherston were apparently inconclusive , although hard-fought in the case of the latter , but Edmund was able to relieve London , driving the enemy away and defeating them after crossing the Thames at Brentford . |
| 10 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 11 | He took his foot away and pushed the crate into place where it acted as a stop to prevent the door from sliding back open again . |
| 12 | She put her bike away and sauntered into the room . |
| 13 | She took his beaker away and placed it on the balcony wall . |
| 14 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 15 | Blue smoke rose from the grill , she snatched the toast away and scraped off the burnt part . |
| 16 | She turned her gaze away and stared towards the river , watching the faint sway of the trees as their branches dipped and brushed against the water , but after a few too brief seconds she found her eyes drawn helplessly back to that window , and gasped . |
| 17 | After a few moments she could stand it no longer , and with an effort she wrenched her gaze away and looked down at the carpet . |
| 18 | At last Fairham tore his gaze away and filed out in front of Nicholson . |
| 19 | Almost with relief Ronni snatched her gaze away and turned in the direction he had nodded . |
| 20 | He threw the flask away and began to rub his hands vigorously together until circulation was restored . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel like a new man , ’ he said as she put the flask away and combed the crumbs from the dashboard into her cupped hand . |
| 22 | I am sorry I ca n't be any more help with that at this stage what I can do is to take that question away and circulate the information after I 've done some sums . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll have the police here at any moment , ready to take the boy away and throw him into prison ! ’ |
| 24 | Stephen laughed , and Felix felt vaguely resentful , but it was fine at the moment to see his friend laughing even at his expense , so he brushed the mood away and continued with an invention about Mao studying Princess Anne 's record at gymkhanas . |
| 25 | Bosnian Serbs came and took her husband away and killed him . |
| 26 | So I pushed suspicion away and enjoyed being fussed over . |
| 27 | I 'd wanted to be a nurse or a policewoman , but I had to leave school right away and help support my family . |
| 28 | He stood Willie on the armchair , took the towel away and placed the nightshirt over his head , cutting more away from the hem until Willie 's toes and hands came into view . |
| 29 | Increasingly worried , Comfort dried Julia 's face as gently as she could , threw the water away and went back to her chair to watch . |
| 30 | But after the interval the striker pulled up with a hamstring strain , signalled to the bench to come off — and then gave the ball away and set up Stuttgart 's vital opening goal . |