Example sentences of "[pers pn] away [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why not give them away while saying , " Look here , have it , so long as you spend the proceeds on buying buses . " . |
| 2 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 3 | Instead of dealing with the problem of a shrinking environment , for many years , scientists have wanted to protect the panda by taking them away and intervening with modern and more effective methods . |
| 4 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 5 | Parents may hold their babies close and convey love for and admiration of their bodies , or they may hold them away and register distaste , even disgust , for some of their bodily functions . |
| 6 | He covered his face with his hands , then took them away and looked down at the earth . |
| 7 | But such things have become part of himself and he can not be restrained from taking them away and using them . |
| 8 | Some are solitary , and this one constructs a nest for its eggs and offspring by cutting away half-moon shaped pieces of leaf , carrying them away and sticking them together like bricks ! |
| 9 | ‘ Throw them away and come back with me . ’ |
| 10 | But it was too late ; large tears rolled down her cheeks and , no matter how swiftly she swiped them away and pretended they were n't there , they just kept on coming . |
| 11 | Yes , erm all our sort of cabbage stalks and beans stalks go onto the muck heap to turn into a sort of compost , but other people they just sort of burn or take them away and buy a bag of compost . |
| 12 | A counsel of despair was offered for many years , which , in effect , said , ‘ put them away and forget them ’ . |
| 13 | To break contact , move your hands close together again , slide them away and give them a good shake to remove any tingling ( or even tension ) picked up from your partner . |
| 14 | Then she gave up trying to scrape them away and stood there weakly , motionless with horror . |
| 15 | I 'll knock out all my polish here and put them away and knock that off . |
| 16 | We suspected they were not made of sheepskin at all er and we took some of them away and analyzed them to find out what exactly are they made of . |
| 17 | So — we would much rather that you went out on a limb , that you did something , that you listened to the remarks of your peers and possibly to the remarks that we might make about them , take them away and think about them . |
| 18 | When problems have arisen such as in the urban riots they have explained them away as resulting from a lack of proper parental and school discipline ( blaming the victim again ) or as the work of political agitators . |
| 19 | Lili looked at her squarely , and for a moment I entertained a mad hope that she would deny this , would announce that my engagement was a travesty and a cruelty , would say that she was going to take me away and teach me how to dress or to dance . |
| 20 | Alex had thought , You 're throwing me away and trying to make yourself feel good about it . |
| 21 | John says ‘ You 've sent me away and do n't love me . ’ |
| 22 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 23 | Dickie said , ‘ If they catch you , they 'll take you away and lock you up . |
| 24 | She grappled with him as he pressed against her , pushing him away and urging him on . |
| 25 | His Mum sort of turns him away and says summat foreign and they all walk off quick . |
| 26 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 27 | Remember when he went up to the aeroplane , Jim only hate to haul him away and slap him once and he learned , he did n't go near an aeroplane any more |
| 28 | A wild bear cub , he looked to her , before the full long shag has grown , with scanty red hairs on his head , pinkish creases in his flesh , at thigh and neck and elbow , the larval roundness , the white smell of milk — she pushed him away and pursed her lips to spit . |
| 29 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 30 | Take him away and get him to do as he says . |