Example sentences of "he [verb] away [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stayed with us for a while in Salisbury early in 1921 and I can still hear him thumping away on the piano singing his favourite song ‘ Signora ’ in a not very tuneful voice . |
| 2 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 3 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 4 | I turned in surprise to Neil , to see him pointing away from the bay towards where , in a cloud of spray , a powerful-looking launch was heading fast towards us . |
| 5 | She would not allow him to sidle away into the night leaving her to kow-tow to an irate Spittals in the morning . |
| 6 | Tallis heard him walk away from the lodge . |
| 7 | Do n't let Toby get too far and do n't let him run away to the moon again . |
| 8 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 9 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 10 | When he fell ill in 1857 he was granted £30 to enable him to get away for the winter , and six months ' leave of absence shortly afterwards . |
| 11 | A curt note arrived shortly afterwards from Mauve , telling him to stay away for the next two months . |
| 12 | Gould received an official apology from West Midlands police yesterday over their part in the decision to force him to stay away from the Cup replay , but he may still take legal action . |
| 13 | It was unlike him to stay away from the office at all without telling me , though if something unexpected happened , I could understand that . |
| 14 | The magistrates , bailing Raper until March 30 for probation officer 's reports , warned him to stay away from the Archdeacon . |
| 15 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 16 | She watched him stroll away down the corridor as if he had n't a care in the world , knowing full well he was putting the act on for her benefit , and that he must be worrying about the star performer who was also his best friend . |
| 17 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 18 | Then he was gone and she watched him striding away down the street . |
| 19 | A strong sense of taboo made him swerve away from the direction his thoughts were taking . |
| 20 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 22 | From some hidden vantage-point she had watched him that morning , while he rode away with the image of her in his mind and his — |
| 23 | And he rode away into the forest , laughing and singing … and still alive . |
| 24 | They saw red when he got away with the offence by waving his warrant card at a traffic warden . |
| 25 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 26 | He got away from the subject when I pounced upon it . |
| 27 | So he got away from the bed , he had his hands up . |
| 28 | Eventually he got away from the dogs , + hid under a car , panting loudly . |
| 29 | He straightened away from the stone urn and slipped his hands back into his trouser pockets . |
| 30 | He tottered away across the bath to Jazz and Bean , leaving Hoomey clinging to the rail , gazing down in amazement at the distance he had swum . |