Example sentences of "[pers pn] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can see them away down the river for miles now . |
| 2 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a good thing you do n't know any secrets — you 'd give them away to the milkman ! ’ ’ |
| 4 | Do n't just give them away to the adventurers if they do n't bother even to search this room ; they must make an effort to find these bizarre items and take an interest in finding out what they do . |
| 5 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 6 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 7 | About the fishes who swallow human sins , and carry them away to the ocean . |
| 8 | I gave one of them away to the . |
| 9 | Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here . |
| 10 | New Zealands should be brushed off , hosed down and dried before you put them away for the summer . |
| 11 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 12 | ‘ You do not know , ’ said Lili , ‘ how many women would gladly put away for ever their suspender-belt and stockings — put them away with the relief of the weary warrior hanging up his shield after battle . ’ |
| 13 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 14 | She picked off two pale sticky little slugs and flicked them away into the weeds , then crouched over a clear patch of soil and started to pull apart their tangled cotton-thread roots . |
| 15 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 16 | It was a sensation to me , a novice , but the experienced experimentalist learns the tricks of the trade , knows what mistakes to avoid and when weird things happen tries to investigate or to file them away in the memory — just in case . |
| 17 | ‘ It was obviously a good way to raise money for local charities , instead of just throwing them away in the waste bins . |
| 18 | Suddenly , after three or four years of silence , as they stood side by side in some rented school hall , slackening their bows and cleating them away in the lids of their violin cases , they began to talk . |
| 19 | I 'll put them away in the fridge for you . |
| 20 | Staff members tried to keep them away from the soft-hearted President , consigning them to the Vice-president not because Bush was more callous , North explained , but because it was Reagan who had to make the policy decisions . |
| 21 | The hatchback also keeps them away from the big Volvos . |
| 22 | As Henry removed his coat and set his briefcase down , Maisie 's fingers , like demented spiders in a bath , ran this way and that , in any direction , it seemed , that might lead them away from the wistful logic of the melody . |
| 23 | However , wild horses could n't drag them away from the task in hand tonight , namely lowering the floor six feet with every beat . |
| 24 | An empty drink tube rolled between their feet as the jitney wheeled into motion , whisking them away from the cargo concourse and plunging into the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 25 | The Society has a unique collection of pre-grouping wagons and is very keen to store them away from the ravages of salt sea-spray , weather and vandals . |
| 26 | If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents . |
| 27 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 28 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 29 | I got mad , because they were so greedy , and tried to shove them away from the chair . |
| 30 | Their parents must lead them away from the nest site to other areas where they can collect food and find hiding places . |