Example sentences of "away [coord] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All agree that the building they share in Aldershot , an outdated 60s 12-storey tower block , needs major refurbishment — closing it and moving to the Royal Logistic Corps training centre 20 miles away or converting it to an office block and building a new , smaller Army catering school alongside , are not seen as attractive options . |
| 2 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 3 | [ She ] … will not interpret my sharing of my pain as an assault , she will not turn away or urge me to be strong , or murmur some expression of sympathy or swallow hard because there is , finally , nothing to say to someone who is beyond comfort though not beyond caring . |
| 4 | So that you may vanish away and hide yourself from me ? |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll have the police here at any moment , ready to take the boy away and throw him into prison ! ’ |
| 6 | Away and throw it in the bucket , Morag . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 8 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 9 | Owen laboured over the living , mending them as best he could , and over the dead , making them ready for burial , until he fell and lay like dead beside the last of them , but still conscious and aware , and Adam and some of those who had come with the priest to their aid carried him away and bedded him in quietness in one of the cottages . |
| 10 | ‘ Busy , ’ he replied , and while she bit down a reply of , ‘ That should keep you out of mischief , ’ Lubor went on to disappoint her some more , when he added , ‘ Mr Gajdusek has gone away and left me with very much work . ’ |
| 11 | This bomb came through and whacked this barrel and it took the side of his head away and dragged him to the end of the ship . ’ |
| 12 | The Chronicle C text records that in 1028 Cnut sailed from England to Norway with fifty ships ; D and E add that he drove Olaf away and took it for himself . |
| 13 | Her large eyes were fixed on him , and she wished that she could go away and leave him in peace when he had laboured for so long and so hard . |
| 14 | ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’ |
| 15 | Why do n't you go away and leave me to it ? ’ |
| 16 | Good , he thought , if I really work on her she 'll go away and leave me to it . |
| 17 | She felt isolated in this comfortable place , but paradoxically , she also wished that these young women , with their bright faces and inane chatter , would go away and leave her in peace . |
| 18 | Why did n't Marc go away and leave it to her as he 'd suggested , if that was what he wanted ? |
| 19 | I 'll go away and leave you to your fevered dalliances . |
| 20 | ‘ And he 'd go away and chuck it in the bin or down the sink and come back with a new one . |
| 21 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 22 | Right out of the blue ; ran away and married her in England . |
| 23 | Bonkers ; let us put him away and keep him under sedation and have done with him , " That was the way their minds worked . |
| 24 | She lifted it away and put it on Lowell 's knee . |
| 25 | She twisted her face away and kept herself from crying out . |
| 26 | He turned away and swung himself into the saddle of the horse that Bravd was holding . |
| 27 | Even though open systems may be able to meet requirements at a lower cost than perhaps the traditional proprietary systems , if you 've already paid for the traditional proprietary system , clearly there is no saving to be made by throwing it away and replacing it with the equivalent functionality on new technology . |
| 28 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 29 | Doreen turned her broad kindly face away and busied herself with dinner preparations . |
| 30 | The Spanish pistol was still clutched in his right hand ; Maxim took it away and dropped it in his own pocket . |