Example sentences of "away from his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor boy , she thought , away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man . |
| 2 | Breaking away from his fellow navvies he elbowed through the crowd to shake Seb vigorously by the hand . |
| 3 | At first , he expressed surprise at the colours Saska had picked for his new look — a sludgy , greyish-green suit by top Italian designer , Giorgio Armani , teamed with a dusty tobacco silk turtleneck and cardigan from Nicole Farhi , to encourage Yuri to break away from his preferred monochromes . |
| 4 | He was direct and helpful , but he also steered me away from his personal life . |
| 5 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 6 | He was dressed in the silver-grey trousers of the evening before , teamed with a cream shirt , and she wrenched her gaze away from his strong throat , revealed by the open neck , with an effort . |
| 7 | ‘ Go on , what happened to the daughter of family friends ? ’ she prompted , blushing slightly , and pulling herself a little further away from his male shape . |
| 8 | She had to get away from this magical place , and away from his close proximity , to think clearly . |
| 9 | The snarl on his face , twisted horribly with contempt , was terrifying to behold but worse was the way he wiped the saliva away from his slobbering mouth with his sleeve and seemed to cast it towards her . |
| 10 | She turned away from his probing eyes , busying herself by filling the kettle at the sink . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you , ’ she said , looking away from his probing eyes . |
| 12 | Sara turned away from his dark glance . |
| 13 | At 72 , the former chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party has slipped quietly away from his lifelong East Durham home . |
| 14 | And young Gareth Davies was a whisker away from his first goal . |
| 15 | By moving away from his first mate , the male prevents the female from assessing his true status until it is too late for her to do anything about it . |
| 16 | Chris used to live in a council house , a stone 's throw away from his new £500,000 pad . |
| 17 | On 15 December 1806 John was married at the ancient parish church of St John the Baptist at Penistone , about a mile away from his new home , to a local girl named Mary Woodcock . |
| 18 | A stray little Hungarian boy , sent away from his strife-torn country by his mother , to a new life in America with adoptive parents who did n't understand him . |
| 19 | Lissa turned away from his cool scrutiny . |
| 20 | There was another scream as Molly was thrown away from his frantic struggles . |
| 21 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 22 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 23 | Given the interrelationships of medieval gentry families , any lord could claim a range of connections shading away from his immediate circle , most of which were , for all practical purposes , irrelevant . |
| 24 | ‘ Stunning , ’ she said , admiring the rich purple drapes and acres of gold bunting and surreptitiously easing away from his warm body . |
| 25 | Lorton dragged his mind away from his private misery . |
| 26 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 27 | She tried to pull away from his comforting arms , but he held fast . |
| 28 | For a moment he was still , apparently watching her , then , just as she would have turned away from his apparent scrutiny , he said , ‘ Come on , I 'll race you . ’ |
| 29 | I touched a hair away from his lower lip , kissed the place where it had been , then I left him . |
| 30 | Up in the ‘ Fish Tank ’ is an area set aside for the Inlay Operator , still many years away from his grander title of Electronic Effects Designer . |