Example sentences of "[to-vb] him away [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | Let us all pray earnestly to God to guide him away from the swamp . ’ |
3 | Her husband became an alcoholic and they had to put him away in a clinic . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He wondered if they had come to take him away to a Home for ungrateful and unwanted children . |
9 | All he wanted was a ‘ getaway car ’ to take him away from the zebra crossing as fast as possible because , when he jumped into my life , he was being chased by a whole gang armed with crossbows and intent on target practice . |
10 | The withdrawal from the world , the silence , the disciplines of community and the deliberate cult of monotony in a system where everybody wears the same clothes and does the same things day after day have been found to support the mystic during his frequently lonely journey , to earth him in reality and to wean him away from an excitement and drama that is inimical to the mystical experience . |
11 | Now , what Darwin 's reflections on Malthus did was to move him away from a prenatal , maturational sorting of adaptive from maladaptive variation . |
12 | She was shouting now , scorching with pain , pushing at his hard chest in a futile effort to move him away from the door . |
13 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |