Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got hold of the polished tip of one of his shoes , and tried to pull himself away from the wall . |
| 2 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mandy managed to pull herself away from the glasses long enough to roll green eyes at her cousin and wrinkle her freckled nose . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 7 | He often shuts himself away from the world . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Wants attention , he does , ’ murmured Tom , drawing himself away from the window . |
| 9 | Pushing himself away from the walls of the KGB building , Kirov walked in the direction of the Post Office . |
| 10 | Pulling himself away from the older man , he ran after Maisie , who was now somewhere out in the road . |
| 11 | By his own accounts , he could hardly keep himself away from the battle lines in Central America . |
| 12 | Having loved Martha from the bottom of his heart , Sam now found that he loved his daughter every bit as much , and could hardly tear himself away from the cradle , where he would spend hours gazing at the fruit and blessing of the union . |
| 13 | This was the only time she allowed herself away from the business of the shop or the house above it . |
| 14 | She did n't know how long it would take for someone with a gun to get into position to fire at her , so she took another deep breath , and threw herself away from the buoy , cutting under the surface as she headed for the opening . |
| 15 | Europe 's highest mountain railway which beings in Grindelwald and climbs through magnificent scenery to the Jungfrau is a must ; and there are excursions to Berne and Lucerne , if you can tear yourself away from the mountains for long enough ! |
| 16 | Angrily , she thrust herself away from the bedpost and her hands began again their energetic dance on the brightening wood . |
| 17 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 18 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 19 | She eased herself away from the rail . |
| 20 | Even as a schoolboy he had taken himself away from the crowd for long lonely walks , and sat in the silence of the small chapel in the grounds at Gordonstoun . |
| 21 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 22 | Much of his childhood , after the death of his father , and early manhood was spent wresting himself away from the embrace of his mother . |
| 23 | ‘ No , Father , ’ Ellie replied , trying to manoeuvre herself away from the smell of stale whisky and nicotine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Then the ship tore herself away from the reef , back broken , thirty feet of bow section diving free . |
| 26 | And United continued to haul themselves away from the basement with a two one win . |
| 27 | The further we expand the adult the further we take ourselves away from the fears of our primitive self . |
| 28 | Rule-following as a practice must therefore be able to carry on without anything to support it , and we must attempt to wean ourselves away from the feeling of vertigo which is engendered by our recognition of the lack of support . |
| 29 | Connelly used every ounce of strength he had to push himself away from the cooker , but Farrell was a powerful man and forced the agent 's face ever closer to the ring . |
| 30 | With a shout of pain he tore his hand free , the flesh ripping as he dragged himself away from the knife , leaving it embedded in the wood . |