Example sentences of "[verb] him away from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 3 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 4 | He reads : ’ Not that way , ’ cried his pessimistic friend grasping Toad 's arm and directing him away from the especially grim and oppressive corridor into which his laboured steps seemed automatically to have led him |
| 5 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 6 | Every few days each officer can expect to take his turn on the office duty rota which will keep him away from the field for a complete day . |
| 7 | One Saturday evening she takes Howard by the arm and leads him away from the crowd round the pool and the bar , out of everyone 's earshot . |
| 8 | So she chivvied him out of the cart-end and walked him away from the camp through knee-length grass . |
| 9 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |
| 10 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 11 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 12 | Either the man she is with is not ready for a long-term commitment , he may be violent and she wants to keep him away from the child . |
| 13 | Taking a deep breath , he grasped Mait 's arm , and pulled him away from the enhancer . |
| 14 | He is hurt and shaken , but he insisted on coming back with me to say thank you for making the message that warned him away from the bog . |
| 15 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |
| 16 | ‘ We got him away from the Chink . |
| 17 | Drag him away from the actual |
| 18 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 19 | Connors led him away from the others . |
| 20 | His natural instincts led him away from the pomp and ceremony of regal splendour to the poverty of London 's East End . |
| 21 | He hoped the Frenchmen would be content to drive him away from the high road rather than pursue and capture him , but as he quickened the mare 's pace , so the Frenchman spurred their own horses . |
| 22 | Dragging him away from the house at Harlaching had been like drawing teeth , and on the drive to the airfield he had stopped the car to pick wild flowers , in the name of God ! |
| 23 | Security considerations kept him away from the frontline base of Vitez , but soldiers from the mountain stronghold travelled 30 miles through bandit country to see him . |
| 24 | I kept him away from the old man . |
| 25 | His retirement took him away from the intense glare of publicity but he retained the admiration and affection of those who loved football — and those who knew little about the game but recognised a true gentleman and outstanding sportsman . |
| 26 | Jim Magilton is the second Liverpool reserves player to join the U's , after the signing of John Durning three years ago , and he says it was Brian Horton 's enthusiasm that had tice that enticed him away from the Merseyside side . |
| 27 | Rohmer was surprisingly strong , but the impetus of Cardiff 's lunge spun him away from the girl . |
| 28 | The resident here has clamped his opponent and is lifting him away from the tunnel entrance . |
| 29 | Such forces carry him away from the mainstream of Caribbean life into the tributaries of a distinct black youth culture . |
| 30 | Hazel moved close to Fiver and quietly edged him away from the others , feeding as he went . |