Example sentences of "turn away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should one turn away weaker candidates , and so lose the university income , or admit them , with the possibility of academic , cultural , and pastoral problems ensuing for several years ? |
| 2 | Supposing that we did turn away from the cheap arguments , where could we find a better way ? |
| 3 | Now we must turn away from conflict . |
| 4 | I find that wilfulness in itself is enough to make me turn away from something . |
| 5 | Do n't turn away . |
| 6 | Please do n't turn away . |
| 7 | When she had a piece within her I said , ‘ Maria , you can turn away from me and sing , because I know you will never be one tiny part of a bar out . ’ |
| 8 | We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us . |
| 9 | How then can you turn away from Him . |
| 10 | If I tell her it was I who was responsible for my wife 's death , she 'll turn away from me in horror and disgust . |
| 11 | Susan replied with her usual gentle dignity , but a soft answer does not invariably turn away wrath . |
| 12 | But Jeanie would just turn away , hunch her shoulder and hook her arm , covering the page . |
| 13 | Do not turn away or look down , while speaking . |
| 14 | But she did n't turn away from Bodie , and he knew that she would go along with the request . |
| 15 | A record guaranteed to make any soulboy puke , it 's a dance compilation as nutters ' paradise : anyone not technological had better turn away now . |
| 16 | He made us turn away . |
| 17 | Barbaric England of the scientists , the military men , and the politicians : let us turn away and contemplate the past before all is lost to the vandals . |
| 18 | The flinch was only in his eyes , and he did n't turn away . |
| 19 | Either the rest of the gang would hear her and sneer , or Ember might turn away . |
| 20 | Edgy , Zeno would turn away to laugh . |
| 21 | ‘ How could you turn away from Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Mother ? |
| 22 | She would certainly turn away in disgust . |
| 23 | Soft answer , she felt , might turn away wrath — whatever it was that was making her mother grumpy . |
| 24 | One moment he loved them like a brother , then he 'd turn away and never want to speak fondly to them again . |
| 25 | She gazed back mutely into his eyes , horrified and deeply aroused in the same instant , and when she did n't turn away he began to move once more , slowly at first , and then with gathering force and swiftness . |
| 26 | They would turn away , in excruciation and contempt . |
| 27 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 28 | Those were the words he spoke to her as she lay in his arms in the vulnerable moments following his pleasure when only a lout — in his opinion — would turn away from a woman without a word and go to sleep . |
| 29 | To her horror , Folly saw Luke nod and turn away down the corridor , leaving her alone with this sinister whispering woman who seemed to take it for granted that she was meekly going to strip off and join in what could only be some kind of orgy . |
| 30 | But she could n't do it , could n't turn away from him now when she so desperately needed the reassuring warmth and strength of his embrace . |