Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inevitably this proximity involved a fair amount of touching and occasional pressures , which the man found very much to his taste , and which the young woman at least did not object to sufficiently to draw away to the limits of her corner . |
| 2 | Horses are sensible enough to shy away at the sound of a hiss . |
| 3 | It might seem too easy to him just to slip away into the fantasy world of death . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd do best to meet away from the office , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Bob Bennett was a typical Cockney with a dry sense of humour , who had volunteered for anything that was going just to get away from the parade-ground atmosphere of the Grenadier Guards . |
| 6 | So really it sounds the sort of thing that 'll be nice for you and I to go really just to get away from the children . |
| 7 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 8 | None of the six — Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas ; Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa ; Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska ; former Senator Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts ; former Governor Gerry Brown of California , and Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia — were nationally recognised figures , and all had laboured unsuccessfully to break away from the pack and establish a clear lead in the polls . |
| 9 | Continued the woman : ‘ This is one of the quietest parts of Northern Ireland and that 's why we moved here six years ago to get away from the city . |
| 10 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 11 | Kovalenko cast doubts on the ASEAN proposal for a neutral zone since he imagined it ‘ wrong to think that the ASEAN countries have already managed fully to break away from the influence of the imperialist powers and that they are free to pursue their own foreign policy ’ . |
| 12 | Ironically , having entered muon catalysed fusion initially to get away from the frenzy of high energy particle physics , Jones was about to be catapulted into greater media attention and controversy than a career in particle physics was ever likely to have given him ! |
| 13 | If I want to relax I go out in the garden , anywhere to get away from the kids ' bawling . ’ |