Example sentences of "[v-ing] away and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not unvaryingly , though , like the miserable affairs in Trafalgar Square , but swelling , dying away and surging up irregularly . |
| 2 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 3 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |
| 4 | The young Eric was looking away and picking his nose , looking bored . |
| 5 | At once she broke the contact , looking away and rising . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've never implored in your life , ’ Ruth murmured , resting her wet head on his shirt for a second before pulling away and perching on the edge of the lounger . |
| 7 | If you want to liberate Kuwait , which is the aim of the United Nations resolutions , it is to reduce the forces of the invaders , hoping , as my friend Mohammed mentioned , hoping that the invaders themselves will see the reasoning behind pulling away and saving their own arm and their own lives . |
| 8 | Do you remember them going away and leaving and leaving Nancy and she had that |
| 9 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 10 | And I 've seen them , whenever they see me come along , going away and trying to hide . |
| 11 | We had to keep going away and coming back again . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to pry into your affairs , but you did ring me and you ca n't just say you 're going away and leave it at that . ’ |
| 13 | He just goes on past me , puffing away and shoving this trolley thing in front of him . |
| 14 | A Rumpler , straining to make height , saw him coming , turned panicking away and hit a tree . |
| 15 | ‘ Tomorrow will be happier , ’ he 'd whispered and then , lowering his mouth to hers , he had kissed her once more before turning away and leaving her . |
| 16 | So just turning away and getting on with a job is the most effective response . |
| 17 | He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose . |
| 18 | ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep . |
| 19 | Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes , to block it out , to let me retreat into sleep . |
| 20 | She stood for several moments in front of the altar before turning away and walking back towards the door . |
| 21 | Dora glared after him for a few seconds before turning away and striding across the garden towards the orchard . |
| 22 | The norw. team who looked sure to qualify have vasted it in the last two games by loosing away and have no chance to qualify . |
| 23 | The Ex-Wives returns to the comic vein of some of her earlier writing : ‘ I wanted to entertain myself , I lay on the floor on my stomach , scribbling away and laughing — well , if I ca n't laugh at my own jokes , who else can ? ’ |
| 24 | Without government aid , argue the pro-regionalists , depressed areas disintegrate socially , with the young and the skilled moving away and leaving the old and the unskilled behind ; families and communities thus suffer socially . |
| 25 | ‘ I love you — naught else matters , ’ she said , moving away and seating herself demurely on the furskin rug in front of the fire . |
| 26 | At the age of 9 years , moved on , she was accompanied by her good friend , at their new school , Stonham Aspel. was more fortunate than some as the such-like of and : they were moving away and faced a strange school and strange people . |
| 27 | A top league of ten clubs is also intended to appease those who were intent on breaking away and forming a Scottish Super League , since there will be a built-in level of autonomy for them within the Scottish league framework . |
| 28 | breaking away and realizing just how , you know how mucky a house is |
| 29 | John never forgave Lawrence for breaking away and going into competition with him . |
| 30 | In the case of the curious ‘ rodent-run ’ display , it is as if the bird is running away and hiding at the same time . |