Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ubiquitous , hare-brained , tumbleweed skitters across the road , sticking underneath the car until friction dissolves it away to nothing . |
| 2 | The wind takes him away like a curtain snatch on a bad act . |
| 3 | He kept no symbols of his religion to give him away to his comrades . |
| 4 | He said , No Emma I ca n't there 's no way I can be at a wedding to give you away at nine o'clock . |
| 5 | Another soldier pulled her away by her legs and her long hair left blood along the floor . |
| 6 | The car took them away from the town , out through the flat fields and the irrigation pipes that ran along beside the road . |
| 7 | But for heaven 's sake do n't let fear drive you away from the stage . |
| 8 | Every so often the light wind teased it away from her ears , revealing her favourite earrings as they swung against its soft darkness . |
| 9 | He sent Rizzardi clear and his cross was missed by Brian Kilcline , enabling Capocchiano to put it away from close in . |
| 10 | An academic takes him away for extensive intelligence tests , but he becomes disruptive and eventually opts to return home . |
| 11 | The Lea valley is probably Hackney 's most precious environmental assets , and there is a paramount need to keep it away from development-mad Newham at all costs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Falls partly because it 's shutting down the ends of the arteries , the arteries themselves can actually contract because they 're muscular walled , yes , the arteries can contract and that tends to shut down and reduce the pressure slightly in that area , right and also the body itself is gon na divert that blood is n't it to the core of the body taking it away from other areas , damaged areas , so how can we help to reduce the pressure any more ? |
| 14 | He asked the director to get me away from him . |
| 15 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 16 | And , as they worked , Lucy 's imagination carried her away to the bush , causing her to torture herself with thoughts of Doreen 's fingers sliding down Silas 's arm to clasp his hand . |
| 17 | I 'm looking for a rich husband to take me away from it all . ’ |
| 18 | And the exhibition would be important , she told herself , when a flow of desire swept her away at the thought of being with Lucy , time allotted to their togetherness . |
| 19 | You 're his guardian angel — the one person keeping me away from him . |
| 20 | Chettle gets it away to Rozario . |
| 21 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 22 | Marty McCann breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his intended back pass rebound off the post for the keeper to scramble it away for a corner . |
| 23 | In 1707 , for example , when one of the Duke of Montrose 's associates found himself in legal difficulties , he begged for his chiefs intervention , pointing out that ‘ my pursuer is laterlie marryed to a near relative of the Justice Clerks and My Lord Arnistons , which makes it more necessar Your Gr[ace] should interest your self to take it away by arbitratione ’ . |
| 24 | His decision to send her away from her home and brother into an alien world was interpreted as rejection . |
| 25 | Many an over-stressed big-city chef could benefit from Wendy Vaughan 's well-balanced thoughts , even if time constraints and geography conspire to keep them away from her equally well-balanced food . |
| 26 | Nanny put it away for you . |
| 27 | The stewardess tried to comfort her , but the woman waved her away without looking up . |
| 28 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 29 | Eventually the Bomb Disposal took it away with them after making certain it was harmless . |
| 30 | Fortunately his father took me away at once , and angrily hit the boy hard on the head . |