Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] away [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 3 | An Elf war fleet led by Tyrion defeats the Norse in a huge sea battle and drives them away from the coast of Ulthuan . |
| 4 | She wiped them away with the back of one trembling hand . |
| 5 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 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 | The zoo-man at the turnstile 'd come rushing out and Vern 'd get scared and drag me away to the place where he 'd hidden my … |
| 8 | She wanted to snatch them up and hide them away from the coolly assessing scrutiny that seemed to lay her bare . |
| 9 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 10 | Oh yes , I was told , providing we did n't mind tucking ourselves away in a converted cow shed . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you could give me one of these coins and send me away with a beating ? |
| 12 | To say nothing of mashing the boring bits down to a slurry of images , hosing them away with a touch of your finger . |
| 13 | If you want to produce as many young as possible , it is best to hatch and rear them away from the parents . |
| 14 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 15 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 16 | After delivering 10-year-old William and eight-year-old Harry to Charles on Wednesday night , the princess chose to hide herself away from the world at her family home of Althorp , ready for her worst Christmas ever . |
| 17 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 18 | ‘ Send him away with a flea in his ear . |
| 19 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 20 | Elvis had then travelled forwards in time , locating each potential mother of the Anti-Christ and wooed her away from the Satanic father to be . |
| 21 | Mercer drew him away to a comer , and slowly , haltingly , the general good humour resurfaced . |
| 22 | She drew him away to the corner by the iced water machine . |
| 23 | But Kathleen Mary Butterfield lured him away with a bounce of her fat orange curls , and I found them roly-polying down the hill together behind the shrubbery . |
| 24 | Like all the maidens , in all the stories , half seduced and half petrified , she consented to Fenna 's plans and he swept her high on his great wings and bore her away over the roofs of London and higher and higher cavorting and caracolling through the star-spun night . |
| 25 | A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body . |
| 26 | Realising that it is far too late in her life to expect her to do more than make an effort to modify this trait in her character , you should see if you can direct it away from the home . |
| 27 | The spent kick slaps down near your leading foot and you hook it away with the crook of your ankle . |
| 28 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |