Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hid myself away in the long grass at the edge of the wood near Sykes Farm . |
| 2 | I gave myself away to everybody : fat , high , low , ugly , perfumed and badly-smelling . ’ |
| 3 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 4 | I could n't bear her look of hurt expectancy any more , so I tore myself away from her face and walked off . |
| 5 | She flung herself away from him for a moment , and then returned to attack his sex but he held her off , had to use some force to hold her blind-eyed , gaunt-faced , now grasping body away from his . |
| 6 | You are all I 've got , all I 've got left to build my life on ; my life has been one long frustration , and to stand aside and see you throw yourself away on scum like … ’ |
| 7 | I have worked for you in all ways practically from the moment you were born and I 'd die rather than see you throw yourself away on the likes of her ; for she is scum , and I repeat it , scum . |
| 8 | NOVELISTS WHO HIDE themselves away for months or years usually emerge from their seclusion nervously clutching a manuscript , hand it over to their publishers , and wait by the phone for some kind of reaction . |
| 9 | She jerked herself away from him . |
| 10 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 11 | She levered herself away from him with a hand on his chest and looked him dead in the eye . |
| 12 | She drew herself away from Matthew in sudden shyness . |
| 13 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 14 | Angrily , she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood . |
| 15 | Exercising all the self-restraint of which she was capable , she pulled herself away from his hand and pointed across to the Giudecca . |
| 16 | She wrenched herself away from Evelyn . |
| 17 | She eased herself away from the rail . |
| 18 | She was an anchoress , one of the many recluses of the period who shut herself away from the world to pray in solitude : we can still see the foundations of her anchorage next to the church which is now called St Julian 's in Norwich . |
| 19 | What is the good of people who shut themselves away from their fellow-men ? |
| 20 | Suddenly she pushed herself away from him . |
| 21 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 22 | Forging onwards in this way , they found themselves away from the river and in a hinterland of commercial London that was as alien to them as New York or Hong Kong . |
| 23 | But does n't everybody give himself/herself away in such commonplace situations ? |
| 24 | KEVIN Keegan ( right ) went into quarantine yesterday , but it was more than a niggling flu bug which persuaded him to lock himself away from his Newcastle players before the FA Cup fifth round tie at Blackburn . |
| 25 | They gave themselves away by their distinctive styles . |
| 26 | That 's why he shuts himself away in that lonely place . ’ |
| 27 | He levered himself away from her , as if he could n't trust himself to stay close , swinging his feet to the floor and rubbing a distracted hand over his jaw , and up through his hair . |
| 28 | When the house was finished , he hid himself away for months at a time , with only a few good friends and his beloved books and garden . |
| 29 | ‘ It was his first job and he locked himself away for the day with a feather and a bottle of wine , ’ remembers Sally . |
| 30 | ‘ Shelley — ’ But the last stroke had sounded , its echo drifting away into the night , and with a frown of anxiety , he pulled himself away from her and disappeared through the door . |