Example sentences of "[vb past] it away [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 A firm hand caught hold of her left arm , drew it away from the female curve of her body .
2 He licked it away with a flick of his tongue , sucking and swallowing .
3 But Bosnich almost threw it away in the 38th minute when he fumbled a Jeremy Goss shot and was grateful to see Earl Barrett scramble the ball past the foot of his own post .
4 She hid it away behind a bright , brittle insouciance which plainly worried Elise to death , but for several nights wept silently into her pillow , utterly shattered to find she 'd wanted Penry 's child quite desperately without even realising it .
5 The pilot stayed with his aircraft and steered it away from the school and bravely died with it to save others .
6 Rob the Grinder ‘ ran sniggering off to get change and tossed it away with a pieman ’ , DS 38 .
7 Erm and that you know I wrote to , I , I discussed that with Alan as a problem but then I took it away with the pro forma that says and you , now the target pro forma 's got columns you 've got to fill in and I
8 A police spokesman said the vehicle was not in working order and the thieves probably took it away on a trailer .
9 A second group of miners loaded the loose coal onto a moving conveyor which took it away from the coal face .
10 An empirical study based on the preferences of the median would still be valid ; and there would not be any need in equilibrium situations to introduce party political dummy variables ( a party whose ideology took it away from the median would not be victorious in an election and its policies would not be observed ) .
11 She stroked its neck , led it away from the interested crowd and over to the grass .
12 However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand .
13 He wiped it away with the edge of his sleeve .
14 We got in and the Negro driver gunned it away without a word .
15 I gave it away to the wrong person .
16 Melanie put it away in a drawer .
17 I even thought of trying to grab it from her but she put it away in the drawer where she kept it and stood in front of it .
18 Jack had it away at the time .
19 Then he dragged it away to the drawing-room .
20 He kicked it away from the bars , then continued to boot it as it shambled deeper into the hut .
21 You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again .
22 To stop its silent nagging I pushed it away in the bottom drawer of my desk ; went to bed , thought about Bourani , drifted into various romantic-sexual fantasies with that enigmatic figure ; and failed entirely , in spite of my tiredness , to go to sleep .
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