Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] away [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 When he sees me he pointedly turns away and tries to talk to someone else .
2 Rain fell heavily ; the plain they were crossing became inundated ; the policeman 's Scotch terrier was suddenly carried away and drowned in a swollen torrent .
3 The trouble was that she would never say , she would only look away and murmur vaguely , ‘ You decide … ’
4 After five minutes or so , one Messerschmitt — flown by ‘ Jochen ’ Müncheberg — was seen suddenly to break away and dive out of the sun onto the moored Sunderland in Marsaxlokk Bay .
5 Dad just turned away and did n't reply .
6 Now , when there is heavy rainfall on the Himalayas the soil on the slopes just wash away and cause rivers to overflow .
7 His throat felt thick , so he just turned away and took the reins that Harper held ready .
8 He tried to catch the attendant 's eye but the man was already turning away and reaching for the nozzle of the pump hose .
9 So just turning away and getting on with a job is the most effective response .
10 ‘ You know what , ’ Ari said , wiping her face , ‘ I wish I could just run away and forget all this .
11 And so it is not easily worn away or eroded .
12 Would she just move away and forget ?
13 There was a terrible urge within her to just run away and hide , curl up into a tiny ball and forget that she had made such a stupid , stupid mistake by allowing herself to fall in love with someone as ruthless and cold as Luke Denner .
14 This is what I think , not just hiding away and saying get on with it you know get on with whatever you want to do , no this is what I believe is what I believe that we 're doing .
15 He 's gone about it quietly , just plugging away and learning from watching others .
16 I think I 'll just walk away and leave it Where else did you wan na go ?
17 It was hard to speak ; deep down , she wanted Gran to stop , just go away and forget her mother had ever been mentioned .
18 Now just go away and leave me alone ! ’
19 It is a creative process , not a past process and something which is just stored away and lost and kept for the future .
20 You ca n't just go away and hope everything will fall into place .
21 Do n't leave them until they are so developed and tough that they will not easily pull away and have to be cut ; this is merely pruning and you will thereby ensure that several adventitious shoots will grow to replace the one being removed .
22 However , some groups of port workers have already drifted away and signed contracts with freight handling companies .
23 Monday 's an enthusiastic , ebullient and exuberant day when you could get totally carried away and end up saying or doing something silly .
24 ‘ Piss orf , ’ I hissed at them and they calmly turned away and continued down the street , convinced I really was a genuine cabby .
25 We arrived at the hospital at 6.00 a.m. , me still leaking away and waited for something to happen .
26 ( Note : You might wish to use scrap paper for this ‘ processing ’ exercise , so that you can later throw away or burn the negative thoughts and beliefs . )
27 The edges are carefully bitten away or grosed to fit .
28 I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves .
29 As the sun heats the ground , pockets of warm air form which periodically break away and rise upwards in a column .
30 Now run away and play ! ’
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